Adam Mickiewicz University, Philosophy Department
awnowak@amu.edu.pl
Andrzej W. Nowak (The Faculty of Philosophy of the Adam Mickiewicz University) – A scholar active on the intersection of social philosophy and philosophy of science and technology. Interested in the social and political dimensions of materiality. An important part of his interests is the study of scientific and social controversies and processes of producingfears, doubts and ignorance.
Attempts to combine the ontological sensibility of posthumanism with the Promethean promise of modernity and the Enlightenment A populariser of Immanuel Wallerstein’s modern system-world theory in Poland, with a particular interest in the study of semi-periphery.
Books (in polish): Wyobraźnia ontologiczna.2016, Podmiot, system, nowoczesność 2011) co-author of books Czyje lęki? Czyja nauka? Struktury wiedzy wobec kontrowersji naukowo -społecznych 2016 (togheter with Abriszewski and Wróblewwki) and (english) Polish Science and Technology Studies in the New Millennium 2022(with Abriszewski and Derra). Author of several dozen scientific articles, an active participant in scientific and public life, occasionally a publicist, also present in the blogosphere Member of research team SOWA (Social Circuits of Academic Knowledge).
Currently the head of the project Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: The Social Production of Ignorance in Poland (NdS-II/SP/0011/2023/01), funded under the “Science for Society II” Programme.
Relevant publications
I have been exploring the relationship between the dissemination of fear and anxiety and the dissemination of scientific knowledge. I have approached this from the perspectives of philosophy and science and technology studies. I am currently leading a research project on the production of ignorance in Poland. The methodology adopted for this project is the perspective of agnotology.
Fear, Doubt and Money. War of Ideas, Production of Ignorance and Right-Wing Infrastructures of Knowledge and Hegemony in Poland Nowak Andrzej Wojciech, W: The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’ New Left Perspectives from the Region / Gagyi Agnes, Slacalek Ondrej (red.), International Political Economy Series, 2021, Palgrave Macmillan, s.223-249, ISBN 978-3-030-78914-5
Producing Functional Ignorance for Global Capitalism: Rise and Decline of the Concept of the Noosphere Nowak Andrzej Wojciech, W: After Globalization: The Future of World Society/ Suter Christian, Ziltener Patrick (red.), 2024, LIT, s.107-128, ISBN978-3-643-80409-9
Collecting Crumbs of Lost Knowledge Learning from Postindustrial and Postsocialist Disruptions Nowak Andrzej Wojciech, W: Postcollectivity. Situated Knowledge and Practice / Jelewska Agnieszka, Krawczak Michał, Reid Julian (red.), Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 2024, vol. 284, Brill, s.45-67, Numer artykułu:3, ISBN 978-90-04-69488-0. Przejdź do dokumentu po identyfikatorze cyfrowymDOI:10.1163/9789004694880_005