Agata Pyzik


Agata Pyzik is a Polish journalist and cultural critic who has written on politics, art, music, and culture. In 2014 she wrote a book - Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West examined the artistic and cultural history of late-20th century Eastern Europe under socialism and its eventual transition to neoliberal capitalism. Her writing has appeared in The Wire, The Guardian, New Statesman, frieze, and New Humanist. She divides her time between Warsaw and London.

Biography

Pyzik was born in the 1980s in communist Poland and attended private school as a teenager. In Warsaw, she pursued academic studies in philosophy, art history, English, and American studies. She wrote for Polish magazines such as Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik, and Polityka, as well as music magazine Glissando and smaller literary magazines. Her recent interests have turned toward political aesthetics and forms of resistance. Her study of Eastern Europe, Poor But Sexy, was published by Zero Books in 2014. The following year, Pyzik was commissioned by Bloomsbury Publishing to write an addition to the 33⅓ series of music books on British band Japan's 1981 album Tin Drum.

Discussion of ''Poor But Sexy'' (2014)

In a review of Poor But Sexy for The Guardian, Sukhdev Sandhu wrote that
Critic Simon Reynolds called the book