Stanisław Moskal

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Stanisław Józef Moskal, alias Śledź Otrembus Podgrobelski (born 4 March 1935 in Kraków, died there on 8 May 2019) was a Polish scientist and writer, a rural sociologist, a professor of agricultural science, associated with the Agricultural University of Kraków. He researched cultural transformations and determinants of development in Polish villages, particularly the ecological awareness of its inhabitants. He was knowledgeable about the local subdialects of Podhale. A lover of mountains, ethnologist, and traveler. For many years, he studied the determinants of agricultural development in Algeria. He authored Introduction to imaginescopy in the form of a satirical treatise, the fictitious methodology and stylization of which were used by readers in various practical and theoretical applications. He created the character Jeremiasz Apollon Hytz, to whom he attributed many theses related to imaginescopy. The book, first published in 1977, became the subject of numerous literary, logological, and philosophical analyses, as well as a famous topic for many blogs. The concept of imaginescopy proved to be an inspiration for numerous and innovative artistic experiments. Interest in it has particularly developed in the 21st century. The author's professional experience as a scientist and sociologist is reflected in the humorous scientific text, which is compared…Citește mai mult

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Early life He was the son of Stanisław (1903–1984) and Jadwiga née Jordan (1908–1964). His father was an engineer and technical director of a chemical factory producing soap and vegetable fats in Trzebinia. His mother was a teacher and came from the historical family of former salt Żupniks of Wieliczka, whose members distinguished themselves in the November uprising and the Hungarian Revolution. He was born in Kraków. He was strongly connected to his family's (on his father's side) village of Sułkowice near the Beskids and its traditions, where he experienced the German occupation. He graduated from high school in 1952 at one of the oldest Polish schools (established in 1588) – Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School, whose graduates included his grandfather and uncle. He completed his studies in zootechnics (1957) at the Agricultural University of Kraków, and then studied sociology (1965) at the Jagiellonian University. From 1960, he worked at the Agricultural University of Kraków as an assistant, and from 1965 as a senior assistant in the Department (from 1970, Institute) of Agricultural Economics and Organization. In 1970, based on his dissertation Non-agricultural work as a factor of change in the farm and peasant family of Podhale, he obtained a doctorate…Citește mai mult

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Scientific work His scientific output comprises over 220 interdisciplinary works, bridging the fields of rural sociology and agricultural economics. The topics of his works include issues related to the transformation of agriculture in the process of economic development, changes in the socio-economic structure of the population, the functioning of peasant farms, labor resources in rural areas, as well as cultural and civilizational aspects of rural development, including the ecological awareness of its inhabitants. He authored a frequently reissued academic textbook on rural sociology and two monographs analyzing non-agricultural work in peasant families in the Podhale region. The first monograph, which served as his doctoral thesis, examined the challenging living and working conditions of peasant workers in the 1970s in the fragmented agricultural farms in the villages of Gronie and Ostrowsko in the Podhale region, who worked in a shoe factory in Nowy Targ. He also authored monographic studies on the situation of rural youth in Poland and on agriculture in Algeria. He collaborated with universities in Rennes, Paris, and Montpellier, as well as in Nitra and Prešov. He studied cultural changes in Polish villages, particularly the regional phenomenon of dual employment in rural areas and rural overpopulation. He noted that…Citește mai mult

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Introduction to imaginescopy He was the author of the text and drawings of the satirical Introduction to imaginescopy in a literary form of a "pastiche of scientific text". The book was first published in 1977 by Wydawnictwo Literackie under the pseudonym "Śledź Otrembus Podgrobelski" – his surname as the author is listed in library catalogs, a review from 1979, bibliographic data from 1986, and some biographies, while the author's note in the 1998 edition indicates that the author was associated with Kraków. The Introduction to imaginescopy also includes a bibliography of fictional scientific sources (30 items) which were described in a specialized lexicon in 2016. The fictitious creator of imaginescopy and the related pendology was the pharmacist-philosopher Jeremiasz Apollon Hytz (1841–1914) from Pidhaitsi – the author of the sentence "before whose logic even the most skeptical minds must yield: Every effect has its cause". The author provided a description of imaginescopy: The immediate means, stimulating the imagination through the sense of sight, and thus imaginescope – is any perforation perforating any solid substance to the end that through its orifice one might conduct perhaps one straight line. Imaginescopy is a method of expanding imagination, the strengthening of which depends on…Citește mai mult

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Literary and philosophical aspects The Introduction to Imaginescopy and its form of a satirical scientific treatise have become the subject of literary analysis and interest on internet blogs. Reviews of the book compared it to the works of Sławomir Mrożek and Jaroslav Hašek as well as Cyril Parkinson and Edward Murphy. It was called a "literary delicacy". The author's "phenomenal sense of humor played on a thin string" was noted. One blogger stated that "if Monty Python wrote books, they would have written their own Introduction to imaginescopy". The Introduction to imaginescopy served as source material for mathematical discussions, and the methodological principle of imaginescopy of determining "what is what" was invoked in detailed mathematical discussions as well as in a dissertation on the state of philosophy. The concept of imaginescopy in another philosophical dissertation was seen as "a better approximation of the function that imaginary representation fulfills in an intentional act". The content of the book also became an "important" basis for considerations on the ethics of historical discussions to "deepen and broaden" them. The usefulness of imaginescopy in assessing poetry dealing with fundamental issues was also noted, considering the "threshold of social intolerance in the case of overly…Citește mai mult

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Artistic aspects A group of artists from Bochum used a fictional computational theory described in the Introduction to imaginescopy and presented an artistic document in a German museum gallery in 2004 related to the form of literary text. This project was associated with another artistic experiment – the interpretation of the symbolism of sounds and signs, in this case resembling the imaginescope "hole" of the letter O. At the same exhibition, objects inspired by this concept were shown, as well as a new variation of the wooden imaginescope resembling the reproduced drawing of the "classic imaginescope of Jabcon". This modified imaginescope model, equipped with "double hole protection", was exhibited in 2008 at the Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg. The book by Śledź also inspired an artistic installation called Imaginoscope by Leszek Lewandowski, which was exhibited in 2015 at the Galeria Bielska BWA and later purchased by the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok. This optical-kinetic installation uses a rotating cylinder that projects light spirals onto the walls of the room. Viewers undergo various perceptual disturbances and states close to hypnosis. Lewandowski artistically influences the imagination of the audience and "arranges a situation balancing on the border of playing with the viewer…Citește mai mult

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Niegdysiejsze śniegi, niegdysiejsze mgły Stanisław Moskal, under the same pseudonym, wrote the memoir volume Niegdysiejsze śniegi, niegdysiejsze mgły (Former Snows, Former Mists) in 2012. "A capital work," wrote a reviewer, "we read it aloud with my wife, savoring it..." The reviewer pointed out the author's rural and mountain fascination – first Sułkowice near Kraków, then the highland village of Kowaniec near Nowy Targ, later the Bieszczady Mountains, wanderings with his wife "Szprotka" in the Gorce Mountains, Tatras, and finally Wierzbanowa, where he built a house. His father, Stanisław, was born in the Pod Groblą house in Sułkowice, leaving behind extensive memoir manuscripts. The name of the house inspired the adoption of the literary pseudonym "Podgrobelski". The author spent his student summer months with his uncle Władysław, which provided an opportunity for numerous hikes and getting to know the atmosphere of the Beskid countryside. He became a lover of folklore and an expert in the local subdialects of Podhale. Being both a sociologist and an economist of rural areas, he got to know these regions "deeper than their inhabitants". After completing his initial studies, he did a year-long internship on a farm in Switzerland, then traveled through Siberia and spent many…Citește mai mult

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Other information He was a lover of the Tatra Mountains and Podhale region. The concept of the Introduction to imaginescopy was developed in the 1960s during stays at Hala Gąsienicowa in a small mountain hut called Betlejemka, which mainly attracted young mountaineers and skiers. The shelter was built around 1914 by the Bustrycki family. In 1964, at the initiative of Śledź (Stanisław Moskal), the International Bureau for the Expansion of Imagination was established there. During this period, the name Betlejemka began to be used. Above the door hung a sign: "Betlejemka. High Mountain Hut in the name of Jeremiasz Apollon Hytz". Inside, there was a plaque commemorating his achievements ("Even a worm marvels at the achievements of J. A. Hytz"). His fundamental achievement was proving that "every effect has its cause". The atmosphere of Betlejemka, in the political and social conditions of that time, greatly contributed to the creation of the satirical concept of imaginescopy and the character of Jeremiasz Apollon Hytz. In 1972, Stanisław Moskal participated in negotiations between the High Mountain Club and the Tatra National Park regarding the establishment of a mountaineering school in Betlejemka. The International Bureau for the Expansion of Imagination operated before the first…Citește mai mult

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Commemoration Memoirs have appeared on online portals and internet forums, as well as in printed publications. A text in an academic journal states that he was "an extraordinary person" who "helped young scholars find their own imaginescope".