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I try to recreate the biography of things, mostly post-German, and understand their meaning for the previous and current owners – says Dr. Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, winner of the POLITYKA science award in the category Humanities.

AGNIESZKA KRZEMIŃSKA: – You are in the field of widmontology, what is it?
DR KAROLINA ĆWIEK-ROGALSKA: – This is a French translation dumbbells – Phrases by Jacques Derrida, puns swagger – haunt and ontologies – learn to be. It is about dealing with what is at the border of being and non-being. According to this philosopher, the present is haunted by the ghosts of the past and we must learn to live with them.

Policy 45.2022

(3388) of October 31, 2022; Science ProjectPulsar.pl; p.62

Title of the original text: “Ghosts Regained”

Agnieszka Krzeminska

Journalist of the scientific department of Polityka. Archaeologist by profession. After studying at the University of Warsaw and a two-year scholarship at the Freie Universitat Berlin, she started working as a freelancer specializing in science popularization with a focus on history and archaeology. She published, among others, in “Świat Nauki”, “Wiedzy i Życie”. She was deputy editor of the quarterly “Archeologia Żywa” (2002-2004) and head of the scientific department of the Polish Radio website.

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