Dariusz Brzeziński
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| Imię i nazwisko | Dariusz Brzeziński |
| Stopnie i tytuły naukowe | dr hab. |
| Stanowisko | prof. IFiS PAN |
| Pokój | 155 |
| Filozofia/Socjologia | Socjologia |
| Zakład | Zakład Socjologii Teoretycznej |
| Obszary zainteresowań naukowych | – social theory; sociology and anthropology of culture; contemporary social and cultural change; the algorithmic society |
| Skrócony biogram | I am a sociologist and cultural studies scholar conducting research on both theoretical approaches in social sciences and humanities, as well as on social and cultural transformations of the contemporary condition. |
| Wykształcenie |
– 2024, habilitation in sociology, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences – 2014, PhD in sociology, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. – 2008, Master of Arts in Cultural Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. – 2007, Master of Arts in European Studies, University of Exeter. – 2006, Master of Arts in Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. |
| Pełnione funkcje w organizacjach, towarzystwach i gremiach naukowych |
– 2024-present, British Sociological Association; – 2024-present, European Sociological Association, groups of Sociology of Culture (RN07) and Social Theory (RN29); – 2022–present, Polish Sociological Association, co-founder and vice-presindent of Digital Sociology Group; – 2021-present, International Media and Nostalgia Network; – 2018-present, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy; – 2016-present, Polish Sociological Association, group of Social Anthropology; – 2015-present, Polish Academy of Learning, Commission for the Study of the Threats of Civilisation. |
| Realizowane projekty badawcze |
– (PI), 10.2022-09.2025, Contemporary Dimensions of Nostalgia: Towards a New Theoretical Framework, project financed by the National Science Centre in Poland, grant SONATA no: 2021/43/D/HS2/03321. – (PI), 05-12. 2018, Zygmunt Bauman’s Personal Documents in the Contexts of the Legacy of His Work, project financed by Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, grant no: POR/207/S/08. – (PI), 10.2014-09.2017, Zygmunt Bauman’s Work in the Context of the Contemporary Theories of Culture, project financed by the National Science Centre in Poland, grant FUGA no: 2014/12/S/HS2/00391. |
| Dorobek organizatorski | Organisation of scientific events on recent years: – 2024, 17 December, organization of a seminar Poles on Artificial Intelligence: The Centre of Public Opinion Research’s Survey in the Context of the European Social Survey, speakers: Edyta Umańska, Karolina Augustyniak-Brzezińska, Michał Kotnarowski; chair: Anna Turner (online). – 2024, 3 October, organisation (with. M. Winiarska-Brodowska) of a meeting with Professor Noortje Maares (University of Warwick), titled: What is Digital Sociology? Re-composing social inquiry in the face of AI (online). – 2023, 21 June, organization of a lecture by Professor Anthony Elliott (University of South Australia), titled Living with AI in Dark Times: Rethinking Algorithmic Prediction, Agency and Autonomy, Institute of Philisophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. – 2022, 26-27 September, co-organisation (with G. Kubica and K. Piotrowski) of a conference ‘The Legacy of Bronisław Malinowski in Present-Day Social Sciences and Humanities‘, Jagiellonian University, Kraków – 2022, 14-17 September, co-organisation (with M. Winiarska-Brodowska, K. Filipek and J. Piwowar) of a symposium ‘Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence & Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century‘, 18th Polish Sociological Congress, Warsaw. – 2022-present, organization of a series of seminars: “Zygmunt Bauman’s Inspirations for the Social Sciences and Humanities in the first Decades of the 21st Century”, Institute of Philisophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. – 2019, 11-14 September, co-organisation (with J. Palmer) of a panel Sociology and the Holocaust, 17th Polish Sociological Congress, Wrocław. |
| Wystąpienia na konferencjach, sympozjach, lub seminariach |
Conference papers in recent years: – 2024, 22 November, Longing for the Past in the Age of Digitization, 2nd National Scientific Conference: Culture Matters. Past, present and future, UMCS, Lublin. – 2024, 24 October, Anthropology in the perspective of the nostalgic turn; symposium of the Social Anthropology Section of the Polish Sociological Association entitled: New sensibilities of Anthropology, University of Gdansk. – 2024, 10 October, Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of culture in the Polish period of his work (1953-1968): genesis – inspirations – continuations; conference: Overcoming dogmatism, seeking inspiration. Polish postwar humanities and forms of its engagement, University of Wroclaw, Institute of Cultural Studies. – 2024, 27-30 August, Theorising Contemporary Nostalgia: Longing for the Past in the Context of Current Tension, Trust and Transformation, the 16th European Sociological Association Conference, Porto. – 2014, 17 July, Contemporary Dimensions of Nostalgia: Towards a New Theoretical Framework, University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy, UK. – 2023, 7 December, When the Angel of History Turned His Face Around: On Retrotopia, ‘Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia. 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference’, University of Gdańsk (online). – 2023, 18 October, Zygmunt Bauman and the Nostalgic Turn, University of Southampton, UK. – 2023, 30 March, Critical thought in the age of the Anthropocene: the dialectic of dystopia and utopia, Polish Academy of Learning, Kraków. – 2022, 26-27 August, The Concept of Nostalgia in the Works of Bronisław Malinowski, konferencja: The Legacy of Bronisław Malinowski in Present-Day Social Sciences and Humanities, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. – 2022, 14-17 August, Compassion and responsibility in Zygmunt Bauman’s social theory, ‘18th Polish Sociological Congress’, Warsaw. – 2021, 22-23 October, Media and Nostalgia in the 21st Century, “New Communication Revolution”, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. – 2021, 15-16 October, Migrating Knowledge in Translation: Pre-exile Works of Zygmunt Bauman and Their Contemporary English-Language Publications, ‘Migrating Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Experience and Contribution of Emigrant Intellectuals from Central and Eastern Europe’, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. – 2021, 22-24 September, Utopia and Education in the Time of the Anthropocene, ‘4rd Conference on Utopia and Education’, University of Wrocław. – 2021, 30 June, Culture and Art in the Sociological Imagination of Zygmunt Bauman, book launch: Z. Bauman, ‘Culture and Art. Selected Writings, Vol. I, University of Leeds. – 2021, 25-26 June, History and Utopia in the Era if the Anthropocene, ‘Science at the service of society in a time of a pandemic and related threats’, Polish Academy of Learning, Kraków. – 2020, 10-11 December, Between nóstos and álgos: New Dimensions of Migrants Nostalgia (with A. Trąbka), ‘Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia. 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference’, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk. – 2020, 5-6 March, Max Weber and Georg Simmel: Intellectual Affinities of the Prophets of Modernity ‘Max Weber: Prophet of Modernity, Critic of Modern Life’, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Kraków. |
| Inne | Recent publications
Books: Monographs – 2022, D. Brzeziński, Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal. – 2015, D. Brzeziński, Utopian Thinking in the Social Theory of Zygmunt Bauman, Scholar Press, Warsaw (in Polish).
Books: Edited Volumes – 2025, D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M. Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London. – 2024, G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronisław Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, Routledge: London. – 2021-2024 (3-volume series), M. Davis, D. Brzeziński, J. Pamer, T. Campbell (eds.). Zygmunt Bauman, Selected Writings, Polity Press: Cambridge. – 2022, J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions, Routledge: London. – 2018, D. Brzeziński (ed.), Z. Bauman, Sketches in the Theory of Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge. This book was discovered, restored and edited by me after fifty years of being considered to be irretrievably lost. Also available in Spanish (2024, Esbozos sobre la teoría de la cultura, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós), Portuguese (2022, Esboços de uma teoria da cultura, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar), and Polish (2017, Szkice z teorii kultury, Warsaw: WN Scholar).
Articles – 2025, Theorising the Algorithmic Condition: Challenges, Strategies, and Perspectives (with K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska), In: D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London, pp. 1-14. – 2025, Algorithmic Nostalgia: Longing for the Past in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, In: D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London, pp. 91-104. – 2024, Theory and Society in the Sociological Imagination of Zygmunt Bauman (with: T. Campbell, M. Davis, J. Palmer,), in: T. Campbell, D. Brzeziński, M. Davis, J. Palmer (eds.), Zygmunt Bauman, Culture and Art: Selected Writings vol. III, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. xiv-xli. – 2024, G. Kubica, and D. Brzeziński, Revisiting the life and work of Bronisław Malinowski. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, in: G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronislaw Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, Routledge: London, p. 1-16. – 2024, Bronisław Malinowski and the Anthropology of Nostalgia, in: G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronislaw Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, Routledge: London, p. 233-253. – 2023, Zygmunt Bauman and the ‘Nostalgic Turn’, in: M. H. Jacobsen (ed.), The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman, London: Anthem Press, p. 131-146. – 2022, Liquid Modernity and the Holocaust, “Studia Litteraria et Historica”, no 11: 1-16. – 2022, History and Utopian Thinking in the Era of the Anthropocene, in: A. Izdebski, J. Haldon, P. Filipkowski (ed.), Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises. What the Future Needs from History, Berlin: Springer, p. 32-43. – 2022, Through the Window Again: Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust (with. J. Palmer), in: J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions, Routledge: London, p. 1-21. – 2020, Utopian Returns to the Past: Young Generation in the Face of the Nostalgic Turn, in: R. Włodarczyk (ed.), Utopia and education, University of Wrocław, pp. 59-76 (in Polish). – 2020, From Revisionism to Retrotopia: Stability and Variability in Zygmunt Bauman’s Theory of Culture, “European Journal of Social Theory”, 23(4): 459-476. – 2020, Sixty Three Years of Thinking Sociologically: Compiling the Bibliography of Zygmunt Bauman, (with J. Palmer, T. Campbell), “Thesis Eleven”, 156(1): 118-133. The paper is followed by: J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński, T. Campbell (eds.), The ‘Living’ Bibliography of Zygmunt Bauman, pp. 134-169). – 2020, Culture of Dialogue in the Context of the Rise of Nationalism. On the Engaged Nature of Zygmunt Bauman’s Writings, „Culture & Society”, 2: 33-50. – 2019, Between Kokoschka and Modigliani. National Identities in the Contexts of New Theories of Culture, in: J. Kurczewska (ed.), National and Local Cultures and Politics. Relationships in Different Contexts. IFiS PAN Publishing House Warsaw, pp. 571-586 (in Polish). – 2019, Thinking Beyond Borders: Interdisciplinarity and Innovativeness of Georg Simmel’s Work; „State of Affairs” 1(16): 287-304 (in Polish). – 2019, Savage and Unmarked: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Zygmunt Bauman (with M. Flis) In: A. Grzegorczyk, A. Kaczmarek, K. Machtyl (eds.) Claude Lévi-Strauss: structure and savage, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, pp. 259-270 (in Polish). – 2019, Georg Simmel’s Social Thought in the Context of the Contemporary Theory and Sociology of Culture, “Przegląd Socjologiczny”, 68(1): 119-136 (in Polish). – 2018, Consumerist Culture in Zygmunt Bauman’s Critical Sociology: A Comparative Analysis of his Polish and English Writings, “Polish Sociological Review”, 1(201): 77-94. – 2018, Renaissance of Utopian Thinking and the Paths of Its Transformations in the Social Theory at the Beginning of the 21st Century, “State of Affairs”, 1(14): 227-247 (in Polish). – 2018, A Message in a Bottle: on the Recovered Work of Zygmunt Bauman, in: Z. Bauman, Sketches in the Theory of Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge, pp. vii-xxv (also available in Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish).
Reviews – 2023, Book Review: ‘Making Sense of AI’ and ‘Algorithmic Intimacy’, “Thesis Eleven”, https://thesiseleven.com/2023/09/26/book-review-making-sense-of-ai-and-algorithmic-intimacy/ |
| Zainteresowania pozanaukowe | – theater, cinema, literature, art, photography, travelling |
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| Short Profile | I am a sociologist and cultural studies scholar conducting research on both theoretical approaches in social sciences and humanities, as well as on social and cultural transformations of the contemporary condition. |
| Educational Background | – 2024, habilitatation in sociology, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, – 2014, PhD in sociology, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. – 2008, Master of Arts in Cultural Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. – 2007, Master of Arts in European Studies, University of Exeter. – 2006, Master of Arts in Sociology, Jagiellonian University in Cracow. |
| Functions held in academic organizations, societies, and scientific bodies | – 2024-present, British Sociological Association; – 2024-present, European Sociological Association, groups of Sociology of Culture (RN07) and Social Theory (RN29); – 2022–present, Polish Sociological Association, co-founder and vice-presindent of Digital Sociology Group; – 2021-present, International Media and Nostalgia Network; – 2018-present, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy; – 2016-present, Polish Sociological Association, group of Social Anthropology; – 2015-present, Polish Academy of Learning, Commission for the Study of the Threats of Civilisation. |
| Research projects | – (PI), 10.2022-09.2025, Contemporary Dimensions of Nostalgia: Towards a New Theoretical Framework, project selected for funding by the National Science Centre in Poland, grant SONATA no: 2021/43/D/HS2/03321. – (PI), 05-12, 2018, Zygmunt Bauman’s Personal Documents in the Contexts of the Legacy of His Work, project financed by Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, grant no: POR/207/S/08. – (PI), 10.2014-09.2017, Zygmunt Bauman’s Work in the Context of the Contemporary Theories of Culture, project financed by the National Science Centre in Poland, grant FUGA no: 2014/12/S/HS2/00391. |
| Organizational activities | Organisation of scientific events on recent years: – 2024, 17 December, organization of a seminar Poles on Artificial Intelligence: The Centre of Public Opinion Research’s Survey in the Context of the European Social Survey, speakers: Edyta Umańska, Karolina Augustyniak-Brzezińska, Michał Kotnarowski; chair: Anna Turner (online). – 2024, 3 October, organisation (with. M. Winiarska-Brodowska) of a meeting with Professor Noortje Maares (University of Warwick), titled: What is Digital Sociology? Re-composing social inquiry in the face of AI (online). – 2023, 21 June, organization of a lecture by Professor Anthony Elliott (University of South Australia), titled Living with AI in Dark Times: Rethinking Algorithmic Prediction, Agency and Autonomy, Institute of Philisophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. – 2022, 26-27 September, co-organisation (with G. Kubica and K. Piotrowski) of a conference ‘The Legacy of Bronisław Malinowski in Present-Day Social Sciences and Humanities‘, Jagiellonian University, Kraków – 2022, 14-17 September, co-organisation (with M. Winiarska-Brodowska, K. Filipek and J. Piwowar) of a symposium ‘Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence & Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century‘, 18th Polish Sociological Congress, Warsaw. – 2022-present, organization of a series of seminars: “Zygmunt Bauman’s Inspirations for the Social Sciences and Humanities in the first Decades of the 21st Century”, Institute of Philisophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. – 2019, 11-14 September, co-organisation (with J. Palmer) of a panel Sociology and the Holocaust, 17th Polish Sociological Congress, Wrocław. |
| Presentations at conferences, symposia, seminars | Conference papers in recent years: – 2024, 22 November, Longing for the Past in the Age of Digitization, 2nd National Scientific Conference: Culture Matters. Past, present and future, UMCS, Lublin. – 2024, 24 October, Anthropology in the Perspective of the Nostalgic Turn; symposium of the Social Anthropology Section of the Polish Sociological Association entitled: New sensibilities of Anthropology, University of Gdansk. – 2024, 10 October, Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of culture in the Polish Period of His Work (1953-1968): Genesis – Inspirations – Continuations; conference: Overcoming dogmatism, seeking inspiration. Polish postwar humanities and forms of its engagement, University of Wroclaw, Institute of Cultural Studies. – 2024, 27-30 August, Theorising Contemporary Nostalgia: Longing for the Past in the Context of Current Tension, Trust and Transformation, the 16th European Sociological Association Conference, Porto. – 2014, 17 July, Contemporary Dimensions of Nostalgia: Towards a New Theoretical Framework, University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy, UK. – 2023, 7 December, When the Angel of History Turned His Face Around: On Retrotopia, ‘Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia. 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference’, University of Gdańsk (online). – 2023, 18 October, Zygmunt Bauman and the Nostalgic Turn, University of Southampton, UK. – 2023, 30 March, Critical thought in the age of the Anthropocene: the dialectic of dystopia and utopia, Polish Academy of Learning, Kraków. – 2022, 26-27 August, The Concept of Nostalgia in the Works of Bronisław Malinowski, konferencja: The Legacy of Bronisław Malinowski in Present-Day Social Sciences and Humanities, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. – 2022, 14-17 August, Compassion and responsibility in Zygmunt Bauman’s social theory, ‘18th Polish Sociological Congress’, Warsaw. – 2021, 22-23 October, Media and Nostalgia in the 21st Century, “New Communication Revolution”, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. – 2021, 15-16 October, Migrating Knowledge in Translation: Pre-exile Works of Zygmunt Bauman and Their Contemporary English-Language Publications, ‘Migrating Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Experience and Contribution of Emigrant Intellectuals from Central and Eastern Europe’, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. – 2021, 22-24 September, Utopia and Education in the Time of the Anthropocene, ‘4rd Conference on Utopia and Education’, University of Wrocław. – 2021, 30 June, Culture and Art in the Sociological Imagination of Zygmunt Bauman, book launch: Z. Bauman, ‘Culture and Art. Selected Writings, Vol. I, University of Leeds. – 2021, 25-26 June, History and Utopia in the Era if the Anthropocene, ‘Science at the service of society in a time of a pandemic and related threats’, Polish Academy of Learning, Kraków. – 2020, 10-11 December, Between nóstos and álgos: New Dimensions of Migrants Nostalgia (with A. Trąbka), ‘Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia. 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference’, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk. – 2020, 5-6 March, Max Weber and Georg Simmel: Intellectual Affinities of the Prophets of Modernity ‘Max Weber: Prophet of Modernity, Critic of Modern Life’, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Kraków. |
| Other | Recent publications
Books: Monographs – 2022, D. Brzeziński, Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal. – 2015, D. Brzeziński, Utopian Thinking in the Social Theory of Zygmunt Bauman, Scholar Press, Warsaw (in Polish).
Books: Edited Volumes – 2025, D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M. Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London. – 2024, G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronisław Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, Routledge: London. – 2021-2024 (3-volume series), M. Davis, D. Brzeziński, J. Pamer, T. Campbell (eds.). Zygmunt Bauman, Selected Writings, Polity Press: Cambridge. – 2022, J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions, Routledge: London. – 2018, D. Brzeziński (ed.), Z. Bauman, Sketches in the Theory of Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge. This book was discovered, restored and edited by me after fifty years of being considered to be irretrievably lost. Also available in Spanish (2024, Esbozos sobre la teoría de la cultura, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós), Portuguese (2022, Esboços de uma teoria da cultura, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar), and Polish (2017, Szkice z teorii kultury, Warsaw: WN Scholar).
Articles – 2025, Theorising the Algorithmic Condition: Challenges, Strategies, and Perspectives (with K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska), In: D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London, pp. 1-14. – 2025, Algorithmic Nostalgia: Longing for the Past in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, In: D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London, pp. 91-104. – 2024, Theory and Society in the Sociological Imagination of Zygmunt Bauman (with: T. Campbell, M. Davis, J. Palmer,), in: T. Campbell, D. Brzeziński, M. Davis, J. Palmer (eds.), Zygmunt Bauman, Culture and Art: Selected Writings vol. III, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. xiv-xli. – 2024, G. Kubica, and D. Brzeziński, Revisiting the life and work of Bronisław Malinowski. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, in: G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronislaw Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities, Routledge: London, p. 1-16. – 2024, Bronisław Malinowski and the Anthropology of Nostalgia, in: G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronislaw Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, Routledge: London, p. 233-253. – 2023, Zygmunt Bauman and the ‘Nostalgic Turn’, in: M. H. Jacobsen (ed.), The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman, London: Anthem Press, p. 131-146. – 2022, Liquid Modernity and the Holocaust, “Studia Litteraria et Historica”, no 11: 1-16. – 2022, History and Utopian Thinking in the Era of the Anthropocene, in: A. Izdebski, J. Haldon, P. Filipkowski (ed.), Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises. What the Future Needs from History, Berlin: Springer, p. 32-43. – 2022, Through the Window Again: Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust (with. J. Palmer), in: J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions, Routledge: London, p. 1-21. – 2020, Utopian Returns to the Past: Young Generation in the Face of the Nostalgic Turn, in: R. Włodarczyk (ed.), Utopia and education, University of Wrocław, pp. 59-76 (in Polish). – 2020, From Revisionism to Retrotopia: Stability and Variability in Zygmunt Bauman’s Theory of Culture, “European Journal of Social Theory”, 23(4): 459-476. – 2020, Sixty Three Years of Thinking Sociologically: Compiling the Bibliography of Zygmunt Bauman, (with J. Palmer, T. Campbell), “Thesis Eleven”, 156(1): 118-133. The paper is followed by: J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński, T. Campbell (eds.), The ‘Living’ Bibliography of Zygmunt Bauman, pp. 134-169). – 2020, Culture of Dialogue in the Context of the Rise of Nationalism. On the Engaged Nature of Zygmunt Bauman’s Writings, „Culture & Society”, 2: 33-50. – 2019, Between Kokoschka and Modigliani. National Identities in the Contexts of New Theories of Culture, in: J. Kurczewska (ed.), National and Local Cultures and Politics. Relationships in Different Contexts. IFiS PAN Publishing House Warsaw, pp. 571-586 (in Polish). – 2019, Thinking Beyond Borders: Interdisciplinarity and Innovativeness of Georg Simmel’s Work; „State of Affairs” 1(16): 287-304 (in Polish). – 2019, Savage and Unmarked: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Zygmunt Bauman (with M. Flis) In: A. Grzegorczyk, A. Kaczmarek, K. Machtyl (eds.) Claude Lévi-Strauss: structure and savage, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, pp. 259-270 (in Polish). – 2019, Georg Simmel’s Social Thought in the Context of the Contemporary Theory and Sociology of Culture, “Przegląd Socjologiczny”, 68(1): 119-136 (in Polish). – 2018, Consumerist Culture in Zygmunt Bauman’s Critical Sociology: A Comparative Analysis of his Polish and English Writings, “Polish Sociological Review”, 1(201): 77-94. – 2018, Renaissance of Utopian Thinking and the Paths of Its Transformations in the Social Theory at the Beginning of the 21st Century, “State of Affairs”, 1(14): 227-247 (in Polish). – 2018, A Message in a Bottle: on the Recovered Work of Zygmunt Bauman, in: Z. Bauman, Sketches in the Theory of Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge, pp. vii-xxv (also available in Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish).
Reviews – 2023, Book Review: ‘Making Sense of AI’ and ‘Algorithmic Intimacy’, “Thesis Eleven”, https://thesiseleven.com/2023/09/26/book-review-making-sense-of-ai-and-algorithmic-intimacy/ |
| Non-scientific interests | – theater, cinema, literature, art, photography, travelling |
Bibliografia
| Bibliografia |
Recent publications
Books: Monographs – 2022, D. Brzeziński, Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal. – 2015, D. Brzeziński, Utopian Thinking in the Social Theory of Zygmunt Bauman, Scholar Press, Warsaw (in Polish).
Books: Edited Volumes – 2025, D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M. Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London. – 2024, G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronisław Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, Routledge: London. – 2021-2024 (3-volume series), M. Davis, D. Brzeziński, J. Pamer, T. Campbell (eds.). Zygmunt Bauman, Selected Writings, Polity Press: Cambridge. – 2022, J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions, Routledge: London. – 2018, D. Brzeziński (ed.), Z. Bauman, Sketches in the Theory of Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge. This book was discovered, restored and edited by me after fifty years of being considered to be irretrievably lost. Also available in Spanish (2024, Esbozos sobre la teoría de la cultura, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós), Portuguese (2022, Esboços de uma teoria da cultura, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar), and Polish (2017, Szkice z teorii kultury, Warsaw: WN Scholar).
Articles – 2025, Theorising the Algorithmic Condition: Challenges, Strategies, and Perspectives (with K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska), In: D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London, pp. 1-14. – 2025, Algorithmic Nostalgia: Longing for the Past in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, In: D. Brzeziński, K. Filipek, K. Piwowar, M, Winiarska-Brodowska (eds.), Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century, Routledge: London, pp. 91-104. – 2024, Theory and Society in the Sociological Imagination of Zygmunt Bauman (with: T. Campbell, M. Davis, J. Palmer,), in: T. Campbell, D. Brzeziński, M. Davis, J. Palmer (eds.), Zygmunt Bauman, Culture and Art: Selected Writings vol. III, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. xiv-xli. – 2024, G. Kubica, and D. Brzeziński, Revisiting the life and work of Bronisław Malinowski. On the centenary of the publication of ‘Argonauts of the Western Pacific’, in: G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronislaw Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities, Routledge: London, p. 1-16. – 2024, Bronisław Malinowski and the Anthropology of Nostalgia, in: G. Kubica, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Bronislaw Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities, Routledge: London, p. 233-253. – 2023, Zygmunt Bauman and the ‘Nostalgic Turn’, in: M. H. Jacobsen (ed.), The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman, London: Anthem Press, p. 131-146. – 2022, Liquid Modernity and the Holocaust, “Studia Litteraria et Historica”, no 11: 1-16. – 2022, History and Utopian Thinking in the Era of the Anthropocene, in: A. Izdebski, J. Haldon, P. Filipkowski (ed.), Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises. What the Future Needs from History, Berlin: Springer, p. 32-43. – 2022, Through the Window Again: Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust (with. J. Palmer), in: J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński (eds.), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions, Routledge: London, p. 1-21. – 2020, Utopian Returns to the Past: Young Generation in the Face of the Nostalgic Turn, in: R. Włodarczyk (ed.), Utopia and education, University of Wrocław, pp. 59-76 (in Polish). – 2020, From Revisionism to Retrotopia: Stability and Variability in Zygmunt Bauman’s Theory of Culture, “European Journal of Social Theory”, 23(4): 459-476. – 2020, Sixty Three Years of Thinking Sociologically: Compiling the Bibliography of Zygmunt Bauman, (with J. Palmer, T. Campbell), “Thesis Eleven”, 156(1): 118-133. The paper is followed by: J. Palmer, D. Brzeziński, T. Campbell (eds.), The ‘Living’ Bibliography of Zygmunt Bauman, pp. 134-169). – 2020, Culture of Dialogue in the Context of the Rise of Nationalism. On the Engaged Nature of Zygmunt Bauman’s Writings, „Culture & Society”, 2: 33-50. – 2019, Between Kokoschka and Modigliani. National Identities in the Contexts of New Theories of Culture, in: J. Kurczewska (ed.), National and Local Cultures and Politics. Relationships in Different Contexts. IFiS PAN Publishing House Warsaw, pp. 571-586 (in Polish). – 2019, Thinking Beyond Borders: Interdisciplinarity and Innovativeness of Georg Simmel’s Work; „State of Affairs” 1(16): 287-304 (in Polish). – 2019, Savage and Unmarked: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Zygmunt Bauman (with M. Flis) In: A. Grzegorczyk, A. Kaczmarek, K. Machtyl (eds.) Claude Lévi-Strauss: structure and savage, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań, pp. 259-270 (in Polish). – 2019, Georg Simmel’s Social Thought in the Context of the Contemporary Theory and Sociology of Culture, “Przegląd Socjologiczny”, 68(1): 119-136 (in Polish). – 2018, Consumerist Culture in Zygmunt Bauman’s Critical Sociology: A Comparative Analysis of his Polish and English Writings, “Polish Sociological Review”, 1(201): 77-94. – 2018, Renaissance of Utopian Thinking and the Paths of Its Transformations in the Social Theory at the Beginning of the 21st Century, “State of Affairs”, 1(14): 227-247 (in Polish). – 2018, A Message in a Bottle: on the Recovered Work of Zygmunt Bauman, in: Z. Bauman, Sketches in the Theory of Culture, Polity Press, Cambridge, pp. vii-xxv (also available in Portuguese, Spanish, and Polish).
Reviews – 2023, Book Review: ‘Making Sense of AI’ and ‘Algorithmic Intimacy’, “Thesis Eleven”, https://thesiseleven.com/2023/09/26/book-review-making-sense-of-ai-and-algorithmic-intimacy/ |
