Dariusz Brzeziński
- Position
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- Areas of expertise
- social theory; sociology and anthropology of culture; contemporary social and cultural change; the algorithmic society
- Location
- Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- School
- Department of Social Theory
- Faculty profile link
- https://ifispan.pl/en/members/dariusz-brzezinskiifispan-waw-pl/
Dariusz Brzezinski’s research focuses on social thought, sociology of culture, and contemporary social and cultural transformations. Lastly, he published a monograph “Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022), and co-edited the following books: “Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence: Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century” (Routledge, 2025), “Bronisław Malinowski and His Legacy in Contemporary Social Sciences and Humanities” (Routledge, 2024), and “Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions” (Routledge, 2022). Since 2022, he has been the PI of the research project “Contemporary Dimensions of Nostalgia: Towards a New Theoretical Framework”.
Dariusz is a visiting research fellow at the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Together with Mark Davis, Jack Palmer and Tom Campbell, he co-edited a three-volume series of Zygmunt Bauman’s “Selected Writings”: “Vol. I: Culture and Art” (2021), “Vol. II: History and Politics” (2023), “Vol. III: Theory and Society” (2024) (Polity Press: Cambridge). He is also a co-author of “Zygmunt Bauman Living Bibliography”, published on Bauman Institute’s website. Currently, together with Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Mark Davis and Jack Palmer, he edits a book “The Routledge International Handbook on Zygmunt Bauman” (Routledge).