“Solidarity and the Crisis of Trust: Avineri, Gray, Krastev, Lash, Manent, Sloterdijk, Staniszkis, Vattimo” – Jacek KOTTAN (ed.)

Solidarity has turned out to be a crucial concept for understanding political, moral, and human reality – indeed, crucial for understanding today’s world at large. Although I intend neither to summarize nor conclude the thoughts of the many marvelous thinkers present in this volume, I do wish to formulate several remarks which either directly or…

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The Dream Worlds of Zdzisław Beksiński

As per popular demand, the nightmarishly wonderous artwork of Zdzisław Beksiński has finally made it's way onto the channel! Here we'll be discussing some of my personal favourite paintings of his and exploring what they could mean, or determining if they have any meaning at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf0OWpzWKUQ Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) was a Polish painter, photographer,…

“Anxiety and Lucidity: Reflections on Culture in Times of Unrest” – Leszek KOCZANOWICZ

What has happened to us? What is the meaning of what has happened to us? Bewilderment is perhaps tbe most frequent and at tbe same time most adequate response to the phenomenon of modernity. Emotion underlies even the most learned reflection on the modern age. All attempts at grasping its definitive characteristics have ended in…

The Warsaw Ghetto | DW Documentary

A Polish businessman risked his life to film everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto. These harrowing 8 mm movies were stored for decades in archives, and are shown publicly for the first time in this documentary. The original title of the film is "Warsaw: A City Divided", directed by Eric Bednarski. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8QmqHfy-EI The Warsaw Ghetto…

Zdzisław Beksiński: the nightmare artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxRB4sdbIcw&t=372s Zdzislaw Beksinski was a Polish horror painter that reacted to the horrors of war that he saw around him, and today we are going to take a look at his career. Thanks for watching! For more films about Beksinski please visit Andy Teszner channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSx7... Music by SturqenYou can find more information about their…

“Jerzy Lewczyński, o catador de imagens” (Dorrit Harazim)

Revista ZUM, 25 de maio de 2015 Como definir a personalíssima obra de Jerzy Lewczyński, um dos grandes nomes da fotografia polonesa do século passado? Ao receber a missão de escrever sobre o cultuado conterrâneo para uma publicação do museu de Gliwice, o ensaísta Wojciech Nowicki achou que deveria conhecer primeiro o homem. Depois compreenderia…

PAWEL KUCZYNSKI: “Imagens inquietantes e sarcástica sobre as contradições humanas” (Giseli Betsy)

OBVIOUS MAG - Com uma crítica cruel, penetrante e inteligente, as obras de Pawel Kuczynski são um convite para nos fazer refletir sobre assuntos sérios e atuais. Seus desenhos nos trazem mensagens, reflexões, denuncias e críticas. Afinal não é esta a principal função da arte? Artes que carregam em si mais do que formas e…

“La mort apprivoisée contre l’éternité. L’antiquité et la contemporanéité selon Emil Cioran et Chantal Delsol” (Nelli Przybylska)

Zeszyty Naukowe, nr. 9, 212 Abstrakt: Stoicism is considered to be a philosophy of wisdom. Conceived in the Greco-Roman Antiquity, this philosophy constitutes a reference for many thinkers andwriters. Chantal Delsol, a French philosopher and anthropologist, integrates Stoicism into the European reasoning about death. This is nothing astonishing – Stoicism is especially concerned with the idea…