The Political Critique

Infobox Newspaper
name = Krytyka Polityczna


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type = Quarterly
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foundation = 2002
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political position = Left-wing
publisher = Stanisław Brzozowski Association
editor = Sławomir Sierakowski
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circulation = 6500
headquarters = Chmielna 26/19, Warsaw, Poland
ISSN = 1644-0919
website = [http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/ krytykapolityczna.pl]

"Krytyka Polityczna" (Polish for "The Political Critique") is a Polish left-wing journal founded by Sławomir Sierakowski in 2002. The name draws on the tradition of Young Poland’s "Krytyka" (The Critique), a monthly magazine published by Wilhelm Feldman at the beginning of the 20th century, and on the samizdat "Krytyka" which served as a forum for opposition writers and journalists in the 1970s and 1980s.

tance

The journal brings together people whose aim is to rejuvenate and add the freshness of outlook into the Polish public life. The Political Critique also aims to find connection between such fields of study such as science, politics, sociology, literature and art and to achieve a kind of syncretism of sciences and arts. The articles have an easily identifiable left-wing curve. The journal circulates nationwide. The Political Critique cooperates with various institutions, organizations and informal groups, among which TR Warsaw and Foksal Gallery’s Foundation are the closest partners.

Issues

So far, 14 issues of The Political Critique have been published:
*(2002): Intelligentsia – Helpless or Dead?
*(2003): Left-wing, Right-wing, Mixing the Language.
*(2003): Our Common House.
*(2003): Aren’t You a Populist Yet?
*(2004): Two-speed Poland.
*(2004): Turbulent Times.
*7-8 (2005): Describe the Future, Create the Past.
*9-10 (2005): A Love for Politics.
*11-12 (2007): The Praise of Antagonism.
*13 (2007): Holidays with the Right-wing.
*14 (2008) : Only the truth can make us free.

The journal comes out thanks to the financial and organisational support of the Polish Scientific Publishers PWN.

REDaction

In 2006 people connected with The Political Critique created the "REDakcja" REDaction (Warsaw, Chmielna 26 /19 street). The place serves as a forum for discussion, art presentations and social and political projects. REDaction is also a distribution point of alternative and left-wing books and magazines. After just three months of its existence REDaction was nominated to be The Place of the Year by the journalists of "What’s up" ("Co jest grane"), a supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza, the biggest and most influential Polish daily newspaper.

The publishing house of the Political Critique

In 2006 The Political Critique, in cooperation with Ha!art, launched a new publishing project - The Political Critique Series. The first issue came out in December 2006.So far, there have been published:
#Slavoj Žižek, Revolution at the Gates. Lenin’s Works from the Year 1917, transl. Julian Kutyła, foreword: Sławomir Sierakowski, Kraków 2006
#Artur Żmijewski, Trembling Bodies. Talks with the artists, Bytom-Kraków 2007
#Alain Badiou, Saint Paul. The Foundation of Universalism, transl. Julian Kutyła and Paweł Mościcki, foreword: Kinga Dunin, commentary: Paweł Mościcki, Kraków 2007
#Slavoj Žižek, Lacrimae rerum. Kieślowski, Hitchcock, Tarkowski, Lynch, transl. Kuba Mikurda, Paweł Mościcki, Grzegorz Jankowicz
#Jacques Rancière, Estetyka jako polityka, [Le destin des immages] , trans. Julian Kutyła and Paweł Mościcki, foreword: Artur Żmijewski, afterword: Slawoj Zižek, Warszawa 2007
#Maurice Blanchot Literatura ekstremalna ["Extreme literature"] , edited by Paweł Mościcki, Warszawa 2007In September 2007 people associated with The Political Critique established an independent publishing house. The editors and translators are the members of The Political Critique crew, the publishing director is Piotr Marecki (formely, the director od HA!art), the covers and photoes are the responsibility of Artur Zmijewski, Wilhelm Sasnal, Grupa Twozywo, Grzegorz Laszczuk and others. Works Published
#A guide to the left-wing policy by the Political Critique. Ideas, dates and facts, questions and answers’(Warsaw 2007)
#Coming out soon: the Polish translation of ‘What’s the Matter with Kansas’ by Thomas Frank

The Crew

*Editor: Sławomir Sierakowski
*Managing editor: Agata Szczęśniak
*Art-editor: Artur Żmijewski
*Foto-editor: Konrad Pustoła
*Website: Dorota Głażewska, Adam Ostolski, Agata Szczęśniak
*Coordinators of the ‘REDaction’: Dorota Głażewska, Igor Stokfiszewski
*Team: Łukasz Andrzejewski, Agata Araszkiewicz, Joanna Bednarek, Michał Bilewicz, Zygmunt Borawski, Andrzej Brzeziecki, Anna Delick, Paweł Demirski, Kinga Dunin, Joanna Erbel, Bartosz Frąckowiak, Maciej Gdula, Dorota Głażewska, Agnieszka Graff, Agnieszka Grzybek, Krzysztof Iszkowski, Grzegorz Jankowicz, Adam Jelonek, Małgorzata Kowalska, Julian Kutyła, Adam Leszczyński, Jarosław Lipszyc, Piotr Marecki, Adam Mazur, Paweł Mościcki, Maciej Nowak, Adam Ostolski, Janusz Ostrowski, Maciej Ptaszyński, Magda Pustoła, Przemysław Sadura, Igor Stokfiszewski, Michał Sutowski, Michał Syska, Kazimiera Szczuka, Jakub Szestowicki, Magdalena Środa, Krzysztof Tomasik, Justyna Turkowska, Błażej Warkocki, Katarzyna Wojciechowska, Wawrzyniec Zakrzewski, Wojtek Zrałek-Kossakowski

External links

* [http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl The Political Critique's website]
* [http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2167&Itemid=113 Left-wing strategies] - Fragment of "A guide to the left-wing policy by Political Critique. Ideas, dates and facts, questions and answers"(Warsaw 2007)