Paweł Jędrzejko
Biographic Data
| ID | 9015893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paweł Jędrzejko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paweł |
| FAMILY NAME | Jędrzejko |
| SIGNATURE | JĘDRZEJKO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Silesia in Katowice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8435-5946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Professor Is Your Friend
This essay responds to contemporary political rhetoric proposed by J.D. Vance, who follows Richard Nixon in recasting universities as hostile institutions and intellectuals as enemies of democratic life in his keynote speech delivered before the audiences of the Second National Conservatism Conference in November 2021. Rather than defending higher education as an idealized or flawless system, the essay proposes a different ethical framework: hosp…
Apocalypse Then
This article examines the global afterlives of the Vietnam/American War through the intertwined lenses of photography, cinema, and Cold War cultural circulation. Beginning with Chris Niedenthal’s iconic 1981 photograph of an armored SKOT before Warsaw’s Kino Moskwa during martial law, the essay analyzes how a contingent act of witnessing became a visual allegory that re-situated the American War within Poland’s own history of repression. Drawing …
“The Justest of All Views”
Herman Melville’s Mardi emerges as a pivotal work that bridges the domains of narrative realism and philosophical allegory, reflecting the writer’s evolving artistic ambitions and his quest for truth. This articleexamines Melville’s exploration of the poet’s role and literature’s potential as a medium for conveying profound philosophical insights. Drawing on Agnes D. Cannon’s critical framework and Melville’s marginalia, the analysis highlights h…
On Voyaging and "Bildung" (The Case of Wellingborough/Redburn)
Paweł Jędrzejko’s reflection on the career trajectories of Americanists from Eastern Bloc countries, including his own, spurs off his autoethnographic account of how sea sailing in Poland became a gateway to the world, leading to his involvement in Melville Studies. His chance encounter with the Polish training ship Zawisza Czarny in the Baltic Sea, marking the beginning of his Americanist journey, becomes a point of departure for a literary anal…
A New Opening
The article opening the present issue is based on Paweł Jędrzejko's "Presidential Address" prepared for the audiences of the 11th World Congress of the International American Studies Association. Offering an insight into the most recent transformations of the IASA and of its journal, the Review of International American Studies, the author of the text pays homage to scholars, whose committment has proven instrumental for the development of the Or…
The Day After
Amid the chaos of pandemics or wars, the conflict extends beyond mere human struggles with (their) commonsensically understood “demons”—fears, ambitions, traumas, desires, angsts, and all of other conditions and structures always-already in place even before we become aware of them. Although, beyond doubt, such “side effects” of being-in-the-world or being-with-others generate facts that are effect-producing, whether these facts prove to be moral…
Snapshots
The article offers an comparative insight into two, parallel, narratives concerning a nautical event: one visual, and one verbal. The argument is based on the juxtaposition of Robert Cushman Murphy's photographic rendition of the so-called Nantucket sleigh ride (the stage of a whale hunt, in which the harpooned animal, attempting to flee his oppressors, tows the whaleboat behind him) with his description of the same phenomenon, which he included …
Gaze. An In/Sight
Desired and abhorred, wished for and fought against, protective and oppressive, surveillance is older than the hills. Since the times immemorial, humans would pray to all-seeing gods in hope that the immortals would watch over them and protect them against perils. Divine protection, however, has always come at a price. Irrespective of the religion, the promise of the deliverance from (variously construed) evil hinges upon the believer’s readiness…
The Topographies of the Philosophical Path, or on the Consequences of Not Wearing Shoes
The purpose of the considerations presented in this article is to analyze the status of philosophy in terms of its problem-solving potential, or, more simply, to trace the possible topographies of a philosophical path. The point of departure, but also the central subject of my research, is a passage from Plato’s The Symposium (201d–204c), containing an emblematic, though ambiguous, description of a philosophical journey. The key problems that thi…
The Rule of the System of Technology and Its Algorithms and the Problem of Moral Responsibility
The article offers an analysis of the problems of technology in the context of exercising power in an organization. The power of the system today is addressed in terms of the “rule of numbers,” based on the impersonal authority of the algorithms which is an extension of the modern concept of the instrumental reason. In keeping with the rules of efficiency the employees manifest modes of behavior analogous to those characterizing the functioning o…
Sumienie maszyny? Sztuczna inteligencja i problem odpowiedzialności moralnej
Przyspieszający postęp w dziedzinie inteligentnych technologii rodzi nowe wyzwania etyczne, z którymi w dłuższej lub krótszej perspektywie ludzkość będzie musiała się zmierzyć. Nieuniknionym elementem owego postępu jest rosnąca autonomia w zakresie podejmowania decyzji przez maszyny i systemy, nienadzorowane bezpośrednio przez człowieka. Co najmniej niektóre z tych decyzji będą rodzić konflikty i dylematy moralne. Już dziś warto się zastanowić na…
On Liberatory Strategies of Digital Nomads
The article presents selected threads of poststructuralist discourses, such as posthumanism and post-anarchism, to point out the affirmative understanding of the changes in human subjectivity and identity within the networked reality of transnational capitalism. The starting point for the argument presented in the text is Rosi Braidotti’s concept of the nomadic subject, functioning in a post-anthropocentric world inhabited by non-anthropic consci…
(S)cars
The article opens with an autoethnographic account of its author's encounter with the American sense of space in the context of the clash of his own and American cultural norms related to car ownership and car use. The initial anecdotes, in which the negative experiences of the authors lack of knowledge of the essentials of the car culture in the US prove to be instrumental in the process of learning and adaptation, lead to a more profound, histo…
Inhabiting the River. Musings on Boulevards and Arteries
This introductory essay revisits the multidimensionality of the river conceived of as a system of "communicating vessels," both literally and metaphorically. Drawing upon fine arts, poetry, biology, and philosophy, the argument organizing this text presents the river as a non-human, albeit often anthropomorphized, subjectivity, and serves to remind the reader of the universality of the neverending flow of essence and thought. Moored to the tides,…
Małgorzata Fabiszak, Anna Weronika Brzezińska, Cmentarz, park, podwórko. Poznańskie przestrzenie pamięci (Nota o książce)
Nota krytyczna poświęcona książce autorstwa Małgorzaty Fabiszak i Anny Weroniki Brzezińskiej, Cmentarz, park, podwórko. Poznańskie przestrzenie pamięci, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2018
Mark Helfrich, Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends. Romance in the 70s
Paweł Jędrzejko's critical note on Mark Helfrich's photobook Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends. Romance in the 70s. (Los Angeles: Rat Press, 2000)
Jakub Dziewit, This Is Not Another Martin Parr Exhibition
Paweł Jędrzejko's critical note on Jakub Dziewit's photobook This is not another Martin Parr exhibition (Katowice: grupakulturalna.pl, 2018)
Monika Jaworska-Witkowska, Przechwytywanie tekstów. Powidoki czytania (Nota o książce)
Nota krytyczna poświęcona książce Moniki Jaworskiej-Witkowskiej Przechwytywanie tekstów. Powidoki czytania, Wydawnictwo Kujawsko-Pomorskiej Szkoły Wyższej w Bydgoszczy, Bydgoszcz 2016
Tragedy/Irony. A Reflection on Engaged Poetry and Time
Unlike four decades ago, today—safe in our privilege—we, Poles, are allowed to protest. Irrespective of the brutality of the riot police and despite evident instances of the abuse of justice, the consequences of participation in peaceful demonstrations are incomparably less tragic than it was the case in the early 1980s. And yet it would be impossible not to notice the profundity of the yawning abyss between the palpable reality of desperate acts…
Translocality/Methodology. The Americas, or Experiencing the World
The Americas offer a peculiar stage for translocal methodologies. If we agree that the products of Chinese American culture—which, in the course of the last 170 years of interaction, has evolved into a unique, American, phenomenon—can not be labeled as “Made in China,” then contemporary Chinese medicine in the Americas cannot legitimately be perceived solely as an ‘import.’ Beyond doubt, phenomena such as the emergence of the American College of …
The Times They Are A-Changin’
The article, whose central premise is to address the ellusive issue of the Zeitgeist of the "long 1968," revolves around the appeal of the singer-songwriter activism and the international, cross-cultural popularity of protest songs that defy political borders and linguistic divides. The argument opens with reference to Bob Dylan's famous song "The Times They Are A-Changing," whose evergreen topicality resulted not only in the emergence of its num…
The Squash Blossom
Thanks to the unswerving dedication of a small, but enthusiastic group of people, today the Review of International American Studies is indexed in the prestigious Elsevier Scopus database and features in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+); it has its own profile in the Index Copernicus Journal Master List with the Index Copernicus Value (ICV) for 2017 of 77.29 (per 100!). But there is more: recently the RI…
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
The article, whose central premise is to address the ellusive issue of the Zeitgeist of the "long 1968," revolves around the appeal of the singer-songwriter activism and the international, cross-cultural popularity of protest songs that defy political borders and linguistic divides. The argument opens with reference to Bob Dylan's famous song "The Times They Are A-Changing," whose evergreen topicality resulted not only in the emergence of its num…
The Squash Blossom
Thanks to the unswerving dedication of a small, but enthusiastic group of people, today the Review of International American Studies is indexed in the prestigious Elsevier Scopus database and features in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+); it has its own profile in the Index Copernicus Journal Master List with the Index Copernicus Value (ICV) for 2017 of 77.29 (per 100!). But there is more: recently the RI…
Małgorzata Fabiszak, Anna Weronika Brzezińska, Cmentarz, park, podwórko. Poznańskie przestrzenie pamięci (Nota o książce)
Nota krytyczna poświęcona książce autorstwa Małgorzaty Fabiszak i Anny Weroniki Brzezińskiej, Cmentarz, park, podwórko. Poznańskie przestrzenie pamięci, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2018
Mark Helfrich, Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends. Romance in the 70s
Paweł Jędrzejko's critical note on Mark Helfrich's photobook Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girlfriends. Romance in the 70s. (Los Angeles: Rat Press, 2000)
Jakub Dziewit, This Is Not Another Martin Parr Exhibition
Paweł Jędrzejko's critical note on Jakub Dziewit's photobook This is not another Martin Parr exhibition (Katowice: grupakulturalna.pl, 2018)
Monika Jaworska-Witkowska, Przechwytywanie tekstów. Powidoki czytania (Nota o książce)
Nota krytyczna poświęcona książce Moniki Jaworskiej-Witkowskiej Przechwytywanie tekstów. Powidoki czytania, Wydawnictwo Kujawsko-Pomorskiej Szkoły Wyższej w Bydgoszczy, Bydgoszcz 2016
Tragedy/Irony. A Reflection on Engaged Poetry and Time
Unlike four decades ago, today—safe in our privilege—we, Poles, are allowed to protest. Irrespective of the brutality of the riot police and despite evident instances of the abuse of justice, the consequences of participation in peaceful demonstrations are incomparably less tragic than it was the case in the early 1980s. And yet it would be impossible not to notice the profundity of the yawning abyss between the palpable reality of desperate acts…
Translocality/Methodology. The Americas, or Experiencing the World
The Americas offer a peculiar stage for translocal methodologies. If we agree that the products of Chinese American culture—which, in the course of the last 170 years of interaction, has evolved into a unique, American, phenomenon—can not be labeled as “Made in China,” then contemporary Chinese medicine in the Americas cannot legitimately be perceived solely as an ‘import.’ Beyond doubt, phenomena such as the emergence of the American College of …
The Topographies of the Philosophical Path, or on the Consequences of Not Wearing Shoes
The purpose of the considerations presented in this article is to analyze the status of philosophy in terms of its problem-solving potential, or, more simply, to trace the possible topographies of a philosophical path. The point of departure, but also the central subject of my research, is a passage from Plato’s The Symposium (201d–204c), containing an emblematic, though ambiguous, description of a philosophical journey. The key problems that thi…
The Rule of the System of Technology and Its Algorithms and the Problem of Moral Responsibility
The article offers an analysis of the problems of technology in the context of exercising power in an organization. The power of the system today is addressed in terms of the “rule of numbers,” based on the impersonal authority of the algorithms which is an extension of the modern concept of the instrumental reason. In keeping with the rules of efficiency the employees manifest modes of behavior analogous to those characterizing the functioning o…
Sumienie maszyny? Sztuczna inteligencja i problem odpowiedzialności moralnej
Przyspieszający postęp w dziedzinie inteligentnych technologii rodzi nowe wyzwania etyczne, z którymi w dłuższej lub krótszej perspektywie ludzkość będzie musiała się zmierzyć. Nieuniknionym elementem owego postępu jest rosnąca autonomia w zakresie podejmowania decyzji przez maszyny i systemy, nienadzorowane bezpośrednio przez człowieka. Co najmniej niektóre z tych decyzji będą rodzić konflikty i dylematy moralne. Już dziś warto się zastanowić na…
On Liberatory Strategies of Digital Nomads
The article presents selected threads of poststructuralist discourses, such as posthumanism and post-anarchism, to point out the affirmative understanding of the changes in human subjectivity and identity within the networked reality of transnational capitalism. The starting point for the argument presented in the text is Rosi Braidotti’s concept of the nomadic subject, functioning in a post-anthropocentric world inhabited by non-anthropic consci…
(S)cars
The article opens with an autoethnographic account of its author's encounter with the American sense of space in the context of the clash of his own and American cultural norms related to car ownership and car use. The initial anecdotes, in which the negative experiences of the authors lack of knowledge of the essentials of the car culture in the US prove to be instrumental in the process of learning and adaptation, lead to a more profound, histo…
Inhabiting the River. Musings on Boulevards and Arteries
This introductory essay revisits the multidimensionality of the river conceived of as a system of "communicating vessels," both literally and metaphorically. Drawing upon fine arts, poetry, biology, and philosophy, the argument organizing this text presents the river as a non-human, albeit often anthropomorphized, subjectivity, and serves to remind the reader of the universality of the neverending flow of essence and thought. Moored to the tides,…
Snapshots
The article offers an comparative insight into two, parallel, narratives concerning a nautical event: one visual, and one verbal. The argument is based on the juxtaposition of Robert Cushman Murphy's photographic rendition of the so-called Nantucket sleigh ride (the stage of a whale hunt, in which the harpooned animal, attempting to flee his oppressors, tows the whaleboat behind him) with his description of the same phenomenon, which he included …
Gaze. An In/Sight
Desired and abhorred, wished for and fought against, protective and oppressive, surveillance is older than the hills. Since the times immemorial, humans would pray to all-seeing gods in hope that the immortals would watch over them and protect them against perils. Divine protection, however, has always come at a price. Irrespective of the religion, the promise of the deliverance from (variously construed) evil hinges upon the believer’s readiness…
A New Opening
The article opening the present issue is based on Paweł Jędrzejko's "Presidential Address" prepared for the audiences of the 11th World Congress of the International American Studies Association. Offering an insight into the most recent transformations of the IASA and of its journal, the Review of International American Studies, the author of the text pays homage to scholars, whose committment has proven instrumental for the development of the Or…
The Day After
Amid the chaos of pandemics or wars, the conflict extends beyond mere human struggles with (their) commonsensically understood “demons”—fears, ambitions, traumas, desires, angsts, and all of other conditions and structures always-already in place even before we become aware of them. Although, beyond doubt, such “side effects” of being-in-the-world or being-with-others generate facts that are effect-producing, whether these facts prove to be moral…
“The Justest of All Views”
Herman Melville’s Mardi emerges as a pivotal work that bridges the domains of narrative realism and philosophical allegory, reflecting the writer’s evolving artistic ambitions and his quest for truth. This articleexamines Melville’s exploration of the poet’s role and literature’s potential as a medium for conveying profound philosophical insights. Drawing on Agnes D. Cannon’s critical framework and Melville’s marginalia, the analysis highlights h…
On Voyaging and "Bildung" (The Case of Wellingborough/Redburn)
Paweł Jędrzejko’s reflection on the career trajectories of Americanists from Eastern Bloc countries, including his own, spurs off his autoethnographic account of how sea sailing in Poland became a gateway to the world, leading to his involvement in Melville Studies. His chance encounter with the Polish training ship Zawisza Czarny in the Baltic Sea, marking the beginning of his Americanist journey, becomes a point of departure for a literary anal…
Apocalypse Then
This article examines the global afterlives of the Vietnam/American War through the intertwined lenses of photography, cinema, and Cold War cultural circulation. Beginning with Chris Niedenthal’s iconic 1981 photograph of an armored SKOT before Warsaw’s Kino Moskwa during martial law, the essay analyzes how a contingent act of witnessing became a visual allegory that re-situated the American War within Poland’s own history of repression. Drawing …
The Professor Is Your Friend
This essay responds to contemporary political rhetoric proposed by J.D. Vance, who follows Richard Nixon in recasting universities as hostile institutions and intellectuals as enemies of democratic life in his keynote speech delivered before the audiences of the Second National Conservatism Conference in November 2021. Rather than defending higher education as an idealized or flawless system, the essay proposes a different ethical framework: hosp…
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