SocioPerception vol. 32
We invite you to participate in SocioPerception vol. 32 | Totalizing the modern world – from total organisations through work to daily life in pandemic
The event will take place on 19 April (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. at the Recepcja café-club (Ruska 46a) in Wrocław.
dr Łukasz Posłuszny, assistant professor at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of Sociology, author of the book ‘Organizacje totalne. Teoria i praktyki’ (Warsaw 2022).
dr Joanna Felczak, assistant professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics’s Institute of Social Economy
dr Zofia Smełka-Leszczyńska – psychologist and doctor of cultural and religious studies
Conducted by:
dr Olga Nowaczyk, sociologist at the University of Wrocław’s Institute of Sociology
The next SocioPerception will be an opportunity to discuss Łukasz Posłuszny’s new book and two essential concepts – total organisations and totalisation. The book reconstructs the meaning and historical development of total institutions. It invites the reader to consider what classic total organisations such as nursing homes, sanatoriums, boarding schools, prisons, labour camps, military barracks or monasteries look like in the present day. How much have they changed over time? Is the electronic armband the former handcuffs, and have monitoring systems replaced guards? What about places where we go for a period of time voluntarily to lose weight, meditate or self-develop? In what sense are these organisations total? Modern technology, working conditions or events such as pandemics, on the other hand, provide a framework for the totalisation of our existence, which takes on new, previously unknown forms. How to think about a job where you spend most of your time, remain available after work, or never stop thinking about it? How to treat working remotely or being locked at home during a lockdown?
The event is an opportunity to discuss the topicality of total organisations and the problem of totalisation, that we encounter in numerous places.
Translated by Klaudia Kuśnierz (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
