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Obraz odgrywa zasadniczą rolę w podejmowanej przez (post)humanistykę krytyce antropocenu. Obrazy towarzyszą refleksji nad antropocenem, spełniając funkcję dowodu rzeczowego lub demonstracji stanu rzeczy. W tekście autorka odwraca porządek i zadaje pytanie o to, jak obrazy sztuki funkcjonują w literackiej fikcji oraz o ile są one obrazami natury. Traktując obraz nie tylko jako reprezentację ikoniczną, ale także ślad świadectwo/dokument, pyta, co robią obrazy w literaturze na przykładzie Mapy i terytorium Michela Houellebecqa (2010). Perspektywa ekokrytyczna ujawni funkcję i znaczenia rozsianych w tekście opisów dzieł sztuki, które mają sprawczość zarówno fabularną, jak i teoretyczną. Wychodząc z psychoanalitycznej interpretacji obrazu, autorka zadaje pytanie, czym jest dla Houellebecqa Realne i ile może mieć wspólnego z zamierającą naturą. Ostatnie prace bohatera powieści Jeda Martina zostają rozważone jako ślady zamierania nie tylko natury, ale i obrazu, a ten jest (nie)widocznym spoiwem języków antropocenu. Usunięcie go poza ich obręb wydaje się kuszącym wyzwaniem. Artykuł przedstawia taką próbę, ukazując m.in. ograniczenia Warburgiańskiej kategorii „atlasu”, będącej podstawą jego projektu Mnemosyne.

Characterizing cellular diversity at different levels of biological organization and across data modalities is a prerequisite to understanding the function of cell types in the brain. Classification of neurons is also essential to manipulate cell types in controlled ways and to understand their variation and vulnerability in brain disorders. The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) is an integrated network of data-generating centers, data archives, and data standards developers, with the goal of systematic multimodal brain cell type profiling and characterization. Emphasis of the BICCN is on the whole mouse brain with demonstration of prototype feasibility for human and nonhuman primate (NHP) brains. Here, we provide a guide to the cellular and spatial approaches employed by the BICCN, and to accessing and using these data and extensive resources, including the BRAIN Cell Data Center (BCDC), which serves to manage and integrate data across the ecosystem. We illustrate the power of the BICCN data ecosystem through vignettes highlighting several BICCN analysis and visualization tools. Finally, we present emerging standards that have been developed or adopted toward Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) neuroscience. The combined BICCN ecosystem provides a comprehensive resource for the exploration and analysis of cell types in the brain.

The events of March 1968 in Poland have been widely studied from the point of view of political and social history. Recently, it has also become the subject of cultural studies. Yet, the research in the area of the visual arts has been neglected. In the text on the performance art in Poland around 1968 I pay special attention to the connection of art and political tensions of the era with the odNOWA Gallery in Poznań as a case study. The gallery was closed down after the happening by Andrzej Matuszewski entitled Proceeding on May 1969 and the event marked the break of the artists community with the cultural policy of the socialist state. It was too early to call their position ‘dissident’. Yet, I propose a notion of ‘distrust’, taken from Stanisław Barańczak’s writings, to define the peculiar stand of the avant-garde artists in Poland by the end of the 1960s that eventually led to dissidence in the 1980s.

There has been a recent major upsurge in the concerns about reproducibility in many areas of science. Within the neuroimaging domain, one approach is to promote reproducibility is to target the re-executability of the publication. The information supporting such re-executability can enable the detailed examination of how an initial finding generalizes across changes in the processing approach, and sampled population, in a controlled scientific fashion. ReproNim: A Center for Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation is a recently funded initiative that seeks to facilitate the “last mile” implementations of core re-executability tools in order to reduce the accessibility barrier and increase adoption of standards and best practices at the neuroimaging research laboratory level. In this report, we summarize the overall approach and tools we have developed in this domain.