W kołowrocie istnienia. Estetyka audialna w Notatkach z terenu Marcina Dymitera

Abstract

This article examines the auditory aesthetics of Marcin Dymiter’s essay collection Notatki z terenu [Field notes] through the lens of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological concept of time. In Dymiter’s work, the city emerges as a phenomenological space: not a fixed object of description, but a dynamic field of experience in which the subject, through the act of listening, discovers new modes of being-in-the-world. According to Husserl’s phenomenology, perception is not merely the apprehension of the present moment but a temporal process involving both the retention of what has passed and the protention of what is yet to come. Sound, therefore, is experienced not as an isolated event but as a continuous phenomenon shaped by memory and anticipation. The diverse urban soundscapes depicted in Dymiter’s essays can be understood in terms of Husserlian temporality: while listening to the city, the subject simultaneously recalls past sounds, perceives present ones, and anticipates those yet to emerge. The article argues that the practice of attentive listening presented in Notatki z terenu can be interpreted as a form of phenomenological engagement with everyday experience, revealing the temporal and existential dimensions of urban life.