- Ada Arendt is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Co-Head of the KLIMER research group at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. She studies ear... moreAda Arendt is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Co-Head of the KLIMER research group at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo. She studies early modern popular print with special focus on the environment, temporality and agencies of care.
Arendt earned her PhD (Hons) in Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw with a thesis on early modern astrological almanacs. Her book on the subject 'Archeologia zatroskania. Staropolskie kalendarze w działaniu' [Archaeology of Care. Early Modern Almanacs in Action] was published in 2019 and awarded a Third-Degree Individual Rector’s Award for Scientific Achievements; nominated for the Jan Jędrzejewicz Award for the Best Book on the History of Science and Technology awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences; and given a Gaudeamus 2019 honourable mention by the Polish Academic Publishers Association.
Before coming to Oslo in 2022, she was a Swiss Excellence Grant Fellow at the Institute of History, University of Bern, carrying out a research project titled 'Managing an ecological crisis. Ludwik Mikołaj Grabiański's almanacs 1696, 1701,' and Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the Institue of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw.
Member of the Polish Association of Literary Translators, she translated Norbert Elias' 'Über die Zeit' into Polish and is currently working on the translation of Aleida Assman's 'Ist die Zeit aus den Fugen?'edit
The book presents the history of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition narrated from the anthropological-cultural perspective and based on extensive source material, which enabled the authors to explore the less known... more
The book presents the history of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition narrated from the anthropological-cultural perspective and based on extensive source material, which enabled the authors to explore the less known aspects of one of the most important music competitions in the world.
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[The Chopin games. The history of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition 1927–2015 ]... more
[The Chopin games. The history of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition 1927–2015 ]
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This paper retrieves the biography of one of the pioneers of Polish forestry, Wiktor Kozłowski (1791–1858), the creator of the first collection of xylotheques in the Kingdom of Poland, and author of the first Polish dictionary of forest... more
This paper retrieves the biography of one of the pioneers of Polish forestry, Wiktor Kozłowski (1791–1858), the creator of the first collection of xylotheques in the Kingdom of Poland, and author of the first Polish dictionary of forest terminology. His passion for xylotheques and other scientific collections is analysed against the backdrop of the history of the organisation of the governmental forest service in the Kingdom of Poland at the historical moment of its reorganisation in the spirit of the Enlightenment subjugation of nature. I discuss the anxieties and suspicions that accompanied the birth of modern Polish forestry, voiced in Karol Kurpiński’s opera "Leśniczy z Kozienickiej Puszczy" [The Forester from the Kozienicka Primeval Forest], and embodied by the two juxtaposed figures of the “young” (modern) and the “old” (pre-modern) forester, coined to exemplify the rift between the technocratic, detached and emotionally involved approach to the environment. Modelled upon 18th-century German wood collections of Carl Schildbach and others, Wiktor Kozłowski’s xylotheques represent the Enlightenment approach, where control over the natural world is exercised through cataloguing, textualising and objectifying.
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This paper argues that Old Polish almanacs could be seen as documents of the process of the surfacing into visibility (and more especially into print), of certain kinds of popular or practical knowledge and their legitimation by some... more
This paper argues that Old Polish almanacs could be seen as documents of the process of the surfacing into visibility (and more especially into print), of certain kinds of popular or practical knowledge and their legitimation by some academic establishments (Burke 2005, 14–15), and that their authors played a role of animators of the Old Polish textual community. Using a copy of an almanac for the year 1696, containing handwritten annotations, I examine the dynamics of this textual community and demonstrate that its discourse was rooted in orality, as well as academic and practical, local knowledge.
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The subjects of this book are images of nature, the impact of science on art, and the attempt to understand man's role towards the environment. The title's methaphor of the superorganism is an allusion to the expansiveness of mankind,... more
The subjects of this book are images of nature, the impact of science on art, and the attempt to understand man's role towards the environment. The title's methaphor of the superorganism is an allusion to the expansiveness of mankind, which has brought about civilisational progress, but also Earth's degradation.
The attitudes that we encounter in avant-garde art comprise an intriguing mosaic of human fascinations, anxieties, reflections, and effects that we experience in relation to nature and which, due to their universality and the enduring character of the experience, remain invariably topical.
The publication consist of two parts. One is connected with the exhibition Superorganism. The Avant-Garde and the Experience of Nature (Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, 10 February - 21 May 2017), focusing on its themes throught the notions of Postnatural Landscape, Biophilia, Embodied Vision, Fourth Dimension, Microcosm and Macrocosm, and Evolution. The second part features essays by the renowned researches Fae Brauer, Iwona Luba, Jacob Wamberg and Isabelle Wünsche, who write about new ways of interpreting the relationship between the avant-garde, technology and nature.
Edited by Aleksandra Jach, Paulina Kurc-Maj
The attitudes that we encounter in avant-garde art comprise an intriguing mosaic of human fascinations, anxieties, reflections, and effects that we experience in relation to nature and which, due to their universality and the enduring character of the experience, remain invariably topical.
The publication consist of two parts. One is connected with the exhibition Superorganism. The Avant-Garde and the Experience of Nature (Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, 10 February - 21 May 2017), focusing on its themes throught the notions of Postnatural Landscape, Biophilia, Embodied Vision, Fourth Dimension, Microcosm and Macrocosm, and Evolution. The second part features essays by the renowned researches Fae Brauer, Iwona Luba, Jacob Wamberg and Isabelle Wünsche, who write about new ways of interpreting the relationship between the avant-garde, technology and nature.
Edited by Aleksandra Jach, Paulina Kurc-Maj
Esej dotyczy ewolucji poczucia czasu w perspektywie społeczno-historycznej. Elias przedstawia, jak funkcjonowały w społecznościach różne konstrukcje czasu, które są jedną z form koordynacji życia człowieka. Genezę kategorii czasu autor... more
Esej dotyczy ewolucji poczucia czasu w perspektywie społeczno-historycznej. Elias przedstawia, jak funkcjonowały w społecznościach różne konstrukcje czasu, które są jedną z form koordynacji życia człowieka. Genezę kategorii czasu autor widzi w połączeniu ludzkiego aparatu poznawczego, zdolnego do abstrahowania sekwencyjności zdarzeń, i kontekstu społecznego, ale osadzonych zawsze w fizycznej rzeczywistości.
The essay discusses evolution of the sense of time in a social and historical perspective. Elias presents how different time structures, which are one of the forms of coordination of human life, functioned in the communities. According to the author, the category of time derives from the combination of the human cognitive apparatus capable of abstracting the sequentiality of events and the social context. These two elements are always rooted in the physical reality.
The essay discusses evolution of the sense of time in a social and historical perspective. Elias presents how different time structures, which are one of the forms of coordination of human life, functioned in the communities. According to the author, the category of time derives from the combination of the human cognitive apparatus capable of abstracting the sequentiality of events and the social context. These two elements are always rooted in the physical reality.