Draft:Ania Malinowska

Ania Malinowska is a cultural theorist, poet and author. She is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice's Institute of Culture Studies and Centre for Critical Technology Studies, and a former Senior Fulbright Fellow at The New School in New York. Malinowska's research includes the evolution of socio-cultural norms with regard to emotions in technoculture. In her publications and studies, she focuses on the codes of feelings in the technosphere, the analysis of cultural patterns in the context of people and intelligent machines, AI, as well as the affective potential of digital devices.

Biography
Malinowska was born in Poland and grew up in Wolin, a town on the Wolin island off the Baltic coast in Western Pomerania. She earned a B.A. in English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2001, to later receive M.A. in literary studies in 2003 and a PhD in cultural studies in 2012, both from University of Silesia in Katowice. In September 2018, Malinowska moved to New York to work as a Fulbright Research Fellow at the New School where she stayed till May 2019. Formerly an assistant professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures of the University of Silesia (Sosnowiec), upon her return she started working at the Institute of Culture Studies (University of Silesia) in Katowice where she is currently based. In December 2020, Malinowska became a full University Professor. In the same year, she co-founded (together with Michał Krzykawski) a Centre for Critical Technology Studies – a transdisciplinary research unit exploring the complexities of post-automation in technological advancement.

In March of 2023, Malinowska was welcomed by the Regional Museum in Wolin, Poland as being the latest member to their "Group of Wolinianki". As described by the Kamienskie website, admission to the Group of Wolinianki is provided to a small selection of individuals who the City of Wolin believes are notable for their achievements and who represent the city well.

Cultural Criticism
Malinowska's work revolves around the problems of post-human relationships and technologized interactions, especially the semiotics of intimacy and modern systems of feeling. Her book Love in Contemporary Technoculture unravels the seeming conflict between technology and the experience of loving. It claims, "modern technologies do not change love [… but] unveil love's inherent technicity in how they extend the experience of loving beyond the experience's expected nature".

Malinowska is a strong critic of anthropomorphic tendencies in AI modelling. As she has described publicly, the naturalization of intelligent machines "reflects cultural fears and conflicts that have determined our approaches to robot design and robot representation". It possibly hinders machines' inherent affordances — ones that stem from their physical properties. Malinowska believes "the robot body offers a nearly infinite alternative repository of physical experience in all possible contexts [and can] expose us to a new dimension of sensory and cognitive experience." This line of thinking stems from her earlier writing about oppressive normalcy, which discusses the cultural appropriation of the queer body and the disabled body, constantly naturalized by the imposed standards of physical performance and personal conduct.

Malinowska is an enthusiast of art-inspired cultural criticism — an approach adopted in her collection ''Data Dating. Love Technology Desire'' (co-edited with Valentina Peri).

To coincide with the 10 year anniversary of the dating platform Tinder, Malinowska was interviewed by CNN's international affiliate N1 to discuss "How Apps (and their algorithms have) Changed Our Love Lives".

Poetry
Malinowska debuted in artPAPIER with a selection of Polish poems. In 2020, together with artist Pola Dwurnik, she published ''Unhappy Ending. Poems for the Broken/Hearted'', a poetry artbook depicting the morphology of a heartbreak. The book turned into an exhibition of Dwurnik's paintings with Krupa Gallery and later into an improvised recital accompanied by jazz double bassist Kamila Drabek. The Unhappy Ending Trio first performed at Katowice Jazz Art Festival in 2021. In addition, this collaboration further led to launching The Unhappy Ending Project — a multimedia online exhibit that includes written poetry, artwork, music, and a short film. Since 2019, Malinowska has innovated textrapolations, an experiment in collage assembly poetry executed by utilizing cut-up technique as well as recently in ink stamps.

Fiction
Malinowska has authored one feature novel in Polish — Plan B (Wydawnictwo Dragon, 2021) and one short story "The Island for the Lost" in Dispatches from the Institute of Incoherent Geography  (FlugSchriften, 2019).