SÅ‚awomir Sierakowski
Sławomir Sierakowski ( [ swavɔmir ɕɛrakɔfsk ʲ i], born 4 November 1979) is a Polish journalist, sociologist, literary and theater critic, and publisher. He is the founder and head of the Krytyka Polityczna ( Political Critique ), one of the activist organizations of the Polish left, the cross-thematic quietly active in the fields of politics, the humanities, and next to her home country of Poland and the Ukraine, Russia, Britain and Germany acts.
Training
Sierakowski graduated from the Interdisciplinary custom Humanities course ( Międzywydziałowe Indywidualne Studia Humanistyczne ) at Warsaw University ( Majors: Sociology, Philosophy, Economics) and was a fellow of the Collegium Invisible, the Polish Minister of Education, the Goethe- Institut, the GFPS, the DAAD, and the American The German Marshall Fund. He visited as part of study tours a variety of universities and scientific centers in Europe, such as the Vienna Institute for Science for the People, as well as in the U.S., such as the universities of Yale and Princeton.
Public work
In 2002 he founded the Quarterly Bulletin Krytyka Polityczna ( Political Critique ) and has since been its editor in chief. He also heads the eponymous publisher of Political Criticism ( Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej ) and the " Brave New World ", the largest independent cultural center and think tank in Warsaw, which acts as a forum for discussion, ideas of art and political projects.
Since 2005 he has been Chairman of the Stowarzyszenie. Stanisław Brzozowskiego ( Stanisław Brzozowski Society), the five cultural centers ( Warsaw, Gdansk, Lodz and Kiev ) and 25 local circles at home and abroad coordinates; belong to it also the publisher of the Quarterly Bulletin and an Internet portal.
In October 2008, he initiated an open letter to the European public opinion, which has been signed by 250 leading intellectuals and is committed to the EU Constitutional Treaty, as well as a federal Europe. The letter was published in a number of European mainstream media, such as Le Monde, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ), the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza.
His journalistic work includes 400 essays and editorials on Polish and European politics, culture and the humanities. His interviews ( with, for example, Jürgen Habermas, Michael Walzer, Charles Taylor, Ulrich Beck, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, Hayden White, Chantal Mouffe, Michel Houellebecq, Michel Faber, Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, David Grossman ) and books reviews were in Polish, French, Czech, Israeli, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Romanian newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines, such as the the Guardian, the New York Times and the taz. the daily newspaper, published.
Artistic work
Sierakowski participated as a co-writer and actor on an art project of the Israeli artist Yael Bartana part, consisting of the three films " Mary Koszmary " ( nightmare, 2008), " Mur i wieża " and " Zamach " ( Assassination, 2011). The project represented Poland at the 54th Venice Biennale.