Probabilistic Aesthetics of the Avant-Gardes: Technicities

Konrad Wojnowski is Assistant Professor of Performativity Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland. His research interests include performativity theory, philosophy of communication, the impact of media and technology on culture and, more recently, the relationship between aesthetics and epistemology. He published two books in Polish: The Aesthetics of Disturbance (Księgarnia Akademicka 2012), on the cinema of Michael Haneke, andUseful Disasters (Universitas 2016), on the performative power of catastrophes in contemporary network culture, as well as multiple texts in Polish and English-language scientific journals. He headed two research grants provided by the National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM and SONATA programmes) and was awarded the prize for best young scientists by the Foundation for Polish Science.