A World Without Substances or Essences

The author of the article aims at depicting mutual relation between Anglo-Saxon and continental antiessentialistic and antidualistic thought. Although there are differences separating philosophical theses of particular thinkers representing these traditions, Rorty finds their postulates both similar and complementary. Another subject of the article consists in exploring main consequence of antiessentialism, i.e. panrelationalism.

„We're all postmodernists these days” An interview with Professor Andrzej Szahaj

Article is a trying to merge two theories: actor-network theory (ANT) and world-system analysis (WSA). Such a synthesis gives us an opportunity to combine an ethnographic approach, focused on actors analysis of ANT, with a networked, global perspective proposed by WSA. Both theories share the same type of holistic/ecological ontology of human societies. This similarity is fully visible if we compare a notion of the collective (Latour) and a notion of world-system (WSA). This is challenge to traditional, modernist views of social ontology. Author propose a concept of “ontological imagination”, as a solution. This is proposition a radicalized version of “sociological imagination (C. W. Mills), more suitable to technoscientific societies.
In the paper the theoretical considerations are supplemented by a case study about “tyranny of the moment” as an example of acceleration in contemporary culture. Article propose model of social time in global context. Time is treated as a very important factor in global inequalities within structures if modern world-system.

A thesis of this paper is that global changes lead to a necessity of expert managing of scientifical effectiveness. Instead, our thesis is considered in regards to individual creativity. In particular, its effects in publications and organizational conditions fostering scientifi c effectiveness. This effectiveness is chiefly rooted in the creative process and its basic features such as sustainability and susceptibility to external determinants which traits are a subject of psychology of creativity and psychology of organization. Both domains are hence a framework for presented considerations, though offered paper is far from completeness, rather aiming at pointing a direction for future reflection.

Wymykający się obraz. Recenzja książki Piotra Zawojskiego Sztuka obrazu i obrazowania w epoce nowych mediów

Perypetie teorii i praktyk dialogowych w wielokulturowym świecie.
Recenzja książki Urszuli Kusio, Dialog w komunikacji międzykulturowej. Ideały a rzeczywistość
Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2011, ss. 300