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Dr Dariusz Gafijczuk

Teaching Associate

Degree: PhD University of Alberta, Canada (2007)

Current Teaching

HIST 242 "Shadow Architectures: Vienna, Budapest, Prague 1900"

HIST 243 "Anxious Geographies: Inventing Europe's Centre"

HIST 384 "Passion for the Real: Historical Imagination and Modern Life, 1850 - present"

Research Interests

My areas of interest comprise cultural history, social and historical theory, art and aesthetics as well as philosophy. I have recently completed a two year Newton International Fellowship investigating the role of music at the turn of the 20th century in social and cultural identity construction.

The core of my research focuses on the many intersections between history, the aesthetics of culture, politics and the making of modern subjectivity in the decades surrounding the year 1900. To date, I have investigated various artistic and intellectual representations of this phenomenon, including visual arts, psychoanalysis, design, architecture and sound. I am now extending this line of investigation to the European avant-garde movements spanning the decades of 1900 - 1939, focusing especially on the role the artistic avant-gardes played in pre-figuring totalitarian political spaces, such as fascism and communism. Methodologically and conceptually, my approach to the historical context of the early 20th century works with what I describe as 'textures of perception', which I understand to be a series of composite spaces where several modes of expression and communication, come under a commonly shared logic of cultural invention.

Books:

Reimagining Central Europe: Art, Architecture and Politics (edited collection, under contract with Palgrave-Macmillan).

The Laboratory of Twilight - Vienna 1900 (monograph, competed manuscript under review)

Articles/Book Chapters:

"Resonant Topographies: Central Europe's Paradoxical Middle", Theory, Culture & Society, 29 (3), May 2012.

"On the Edges of Europe: The Architectures of Blur", Common Knowledge (in press).

"Dwelling Within: The Inhabited Ruins of History", History and Theory (accepted, subject to corrections).

"Max Weber's Science of Composition", Journal for Cultural Research, 15(1), January 2011: 95-112.

"Adolf Loos: Architectures in Abeyance" in Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism and Gender in Austrian Literature and Culture(ed. Clemens Ruthner, Peter Lang, New York , 2011), 60 - 81.

"Bending Modernity: Chairs, Psychoanalysis and the Rest of Culture", Journal of Historical Sociology, 22(4), December 2009: 447-475.

"From Durkheim's Society to Postmodern Sociality", History of the Human Sciences, 18 (3), August, 2005; 17-33.

Space, Time and the Other, in Right-Wing Extremism, Xenophobia, Youth Violence--International Sociological and Psychological Perspectives(Weinheim: Juventa, 2002): 31-47

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