63 research outputs found
Egzogeniczność mierników szoków technologicznych na przykładzie Polski w latach 2005-2009
No full textThe paper describes methods for measuring technology shocks and compares various indirect measures of technology shocks, including the so-called Solow residual and its modifications. Apart from the conventional Solow residual, the author uses modified indicators to illustrate changes in factors of production; he approximates productivity by analyzing electricity consumption (capital) and the number of hours worked and work accidents (labor). The main criterion used by the author to check if a technology shock measure is correct is its autonomy (exogeneity) from non-technology shocks that may occur in the economy, such as monetary shocks, fiscal shocks or external shocks. Truskolaski uses the Granger causality test to determine if each version of the residual is independent from non-technology shock variables. The test was conducted for 12 industries making up Poland’s manufacturing sector in 2005-2009. The conventional residual is independent from non-technology shocks in low-tech sectors, Truskolaski says. In high- and medium-high-tech sectors, on the other hand, corrections linked with the variable use of factors of production are far more important, according to the author. In terms of independence from non-technology shocks, the best measure is a residual used to estimate changes in both factors of production, capital and labor, Truskolaski concludes
Exogenous Measures of Technology Shocks as Used in Poland in 2005-2009
No full textThe paper describes methods for measuring technology shocks and compares various indirect measures of technology shocks, including the so-called Solow residual and its modifications. Apart from the conventional Solow residual, the author uses modified indicators to illustrate changes in factors of production; he approximates productivity by analyzing electricity consumption (capital) and the number of hours worked and work accidents (labor). The main criterion used by the author to check if a technology shock measure is correct is its autonomy (exogeneity) from non-technology shocks that may occur in the economy, such as monetary shocks, fiscal shocks or external shocks. Truskolaski uses the Granger causality test to determine if each version of the residual is independent from non-technology shock variables. The test was conducted for 12 industries making up Poland’s manufacturing sector in 2005-2009. The conventional residual is independent from non-technology shocks in low-tech sectors, Truskolaski says. In high- and medium-high-tech sectors, on the other hand, corrections linked with the variable use of factors of production are far more important, according to the author. In terms of independence from non-technology shocks, the best measure is a residual used to estimate changes in both factors of production, capital and labor, Truskolaski concludes
Discontinuous Infinities
No full textThis special issue of Anthropology & Materialism is dedicated to the philosophy of Walter Benjamin. On the one hand, the pieces collected here explore Benjamin’s relation to a range of canonical figures, whose work significantly influenced his own thinking (Kant, Fichte, Marx, Cohen, Husserl, Freud etc.); on the other hand, they put his philosophy into relation with a range of more recent thinkers (Saussure, Blanchot, Lacan, Derrida, Esposito, Hardt and Negri etc.). All the while, the volume seeks to cast into relief an image of Benjamin’s own philosophical programme, its limits and its possibilities, to probe the actuality of his thinking, and to assert his philosophy’s enduring significance at a time of renewed political crisis
Adorno and the Ban on Images
No full textThis book upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno – not least amongst them, his supposed fatalism.Sebastian Truskolaski argues that Adorno's writings allow us to address what is arguably the central challenge of modern philosophy: how to picture a world beyond suffering and injustice without, at the same time, betraying its vital impulse. By re-appraising Adorno's writings on politics, philosophy, and art, this book reconstructs this notoriously difficult author's overall project from a radically new perspective (Adorno's famous 'standpoint of redemption'), and brings his central concerns to bear on the problems of today.On the one hand, this means reading Adorno alongside his principal interlocutors (including Kant, Marx and Benjamin). On the other hand, it means asking how his secular brand of social criticism can serve to safeguard the image of a better world – above all, when the invocation of this image occurs alongside Adorno's recurrent reference to the Old Testament ban on making images of God.By reading Adorno in this iconoclastic way, Adorno and the Ban on Images contributes to current debates about Utopia that have come to define political visions across the political spectrum
Adorno and the Ban on Images
No full textThis book upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno – not least amongst them, his supposed fatalism.Sebastian Truskolaski argues that Adorno's writings allow us to address what is arguably the central challenge of modern philosophy: how to picture a world beyond suffering and injustice without, at the same time, betraying its vital impulse. By re-appraising Adorno's writings on politics, philosophy, and art, this book reconstructs this notoriously difficult author's overall project from a radically new perspective (Adorno's famous 'standpoint of redemption'), and brings his central concerns to bear on the problems of today.On the one hand, this means reading Adorno alongside his principal interlocutors (including Kant, Marx and Benjamin). On the other hand, it means asking how his secular brand of social criticism can serve to safeguard the image of a better world – above all, when the invocation of this image occurs alongside Adorno's recurrent reference to the Old Testament ban on making images of God.By reading Adorno in this iconoclastic way, Adorno and the Ban on Images contributes to current debates about Utopia that have come to define political visions across the political spectrum
Strategic management in Białystok Functional Area. Cooperation of local government units through integrated territorial investments
No full textBiałostocki Obszar Funkcjonalny powstał jako odpowiedź na problemy występujące na styku granic administracyjnych jednostek samorządu terytorialnego sąsiadujących z Miastem Białystok. Zintegrowane podejście wymagało podjęcia działań zmierzających do instytucjonalizacji współpracy – powołania Stowarzyszenia Białostockiego Obszaru Funkcjonalnego. Podstawą jest utworzona strategia wskazująca kierunki i obszary współpracy gmin wchodzących w skład stowarzyszenia. W artykule przedstawiono kształtowanie się współpracy w ramach Białostockiego Obszaru Funkcjonalnego, realizowanej za pomocą nowego instrumentu Unii Europejskiej, jakim są Zintegrowane Inwestycje Terytorialne. Zaprezentowano również Zintegrowane Inwestycje Terytorialne, przyczyny powołania Białostockiego Obszaru Funkcjonalnego oraz proces jego formowania i kształtowania strategii, która będzie przesłanką dla wdrażania wspólnych projektów. Ukazano cele, jakie będą realizowane wspólnie przez wszystkich członków. Celem opracowania jest zbadanie, czy współpraca gmin nawiązana w ramach Stowarzyszenia Białostockiego Obszaru Funkcjonalnego i podtrzymywana przy wykorzystaniu środków finansowych z Unii Europejskiej na lata 2014-2020 może pozwolić na stworzenie trwałych więzi będących motorem dalszego współdziałania w kolejnych latach/perspektywach finansowych. Ostatecznie współpraca jednostek samorządu terytorialnego może wpłynąć na zwiększenie potencjału całego regionu i poprawę jakości życia jego mieszkańców.Białystok Functional Area (BOF) was created as a response to the problems occurring at the administrative boundaries of local government units adjacent to the City of Białystok. An integrated approach required measures aimed at institutionalised cooperation – the creation of the Association of Białystok Functional Area. As a basis for the actions, a strategy was formed which indicates the areas of cooperation between municipalities belonging to the association. The paper presents the forming of cooperation within Bialystok Functional Area implemented using a new EU instrument: Integrated Territorial Investments. The author also discusses Integrated Territorial Investments, the reasons for the creation of Bialystok Functional Area and the process of its formation, as well as the development of the strategy, which will be the basis for the implementation of joint projects. Moreover, the objectives to be pursued by all the members are discussed. The aim of the paper is to examine whether the cooperation of municipalities within the Association of Bialystok Functional Area in 2014-2020, supported by funds from the European Union, can allow for the creation of lasting bonds that will foster collaboration in subsequent years. Ultimately, such cooperation of local government units may result in increasing the potential of the region and improving the quality of lives of its inhabitants.Tadeusz Truskolaski: [email protected] Waligóra: [email protected] Truskolaski - Wydział Ekonomii i Zarządzania, Uniwersytet w BiałymstokuKamil Waligóra - Wydział Ekonomii i Zarządzania, Uniwersytet w Białymstoku6(72)12113
„Etwas fehlt”: Marksowskie utopie w myśli Blocha i Adorna
No full textDuring a radio debate in 1964, Bloch and Adorno clashed over the status of Utopia in Marx’s thinking. In particular, the disagreement concerned the possibilities (or, rather, limitations) of picturing – with Marx and beyond Marx – a condition in which all societal antagonisms have been reconciled. It is telling, then, that their conversation quickly came to turn on a surprising term: the Old Testament interdiction against making images of God. Given both authors’ commitment to an ostensibly secular critique of capitalist modernity, the prominence of this figure, which is emblematic of the decades-long exchange between these authors, invites further questions. What, for instance, are the epistemic and aesthetic conditions under which Bloch and Adorno propose to present their Marxian Utopias? By considering these questions in light of issues arising from their debate, and applying it to their writings more generally, mypaper aims to contribute to the on-going exploration of “Utopia” in German Critical Theory
Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition, Walter Benjamin, Peter Fenves (ed.) and Julia Ng (ed.) (2021)
No full textCommunity between nationalistic public spirit fantasy and humanitarian resources: The first volume of New Benjamin Studies has been published
No full textRezension vonStefano Marchesoni/Nassima Sahraoui/Sebastian Truskolaski (Hg.) (2025): New Benjamin Studies, Vol. 1: Community in Walter Benjamins Philosophy, Brill/Fink, 165 S. ISBN 978-3-7705-6808-6, EUR 134,00. 
INVERSE THEOLOGY: ADORNO, BENJAMIN, KAFKA
No full textThe striking prevalence of theological motifs spanning Theodor W. Adorno's work has long been noted, from his repeated references to the Old Testament interdiction against making images of God to his evocative citations of a messianic light. This terminological peculiarity raises a difficult question: how are we to grasp the relation between Adorno's worldly critique of capitalist modernity and his use of religious terms? After all, Adorno explicitly echoes the verdicts of his intellectual forerunners, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud, arguing that traditional theology is not restorable. Given the rejoinders that Adorno's phrasing has provoked from commentators such as Jacob Taubes and Giorgio Agamben, the present article proposes to re-evaluate the significance of Adorno's terminology with respect to two authors who colour his understanding of religion and theology: Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin. In doing so, I aim to investigate the sense in which Adorno is able to mobilise the modern dislocation of traditional theology for a critique of reality under the rule of a capitalist cult religion
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