Year 2024

• Dziwaczne i osobliwe. Zjawiska wokół książki Marka Fishera

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  • K. Rajkowski

  - ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal - Year 2024

  In my review, I discuss the Polish translation of Mark Fisher’s The weird and the eerie, published by Słowo/obraz terytoria. Originally released in December 2016, Fisher’s collection of thirteen essays explores cul-tural texts by figures like Howard P. Lovecraft, David Lynch and Joy Division. Fisher employs a theoretical framework heavily influenced by post-Lacanian, post-Derridean and Deleuzean concepts. The translation, of...

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Year 2023

• Zwierzę, które spać nie może. Bezsenność w antropologii filozoficznej Emila Ciorana

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  • K. Rajkowski

  - Ruch Literacki - Year 2023

  This article examines the role of insomnia in Emil Cioran’s philosophy. Taken as a whole, his work appears to be exceptionally significant both from the point of view of anthropology and illness narrative studies. There has never been any doubt that his life and work are dominated by a sense of ennui, loneliness and estrangement. Yet these themes are merely symptoms of more fundamental problems he grappled with, i.e. the grotesque...

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