Zupełnie inaczej. Nad książką Nekrofilna produkcja akademicka i pieśni partyzantów Oskara Szwabowskiego
Streszczenie
The article comments the stronger and the more disputable points
of Oskar Szwabowski’s book Necrofiliac Academic Production and the
Songs of Partisans (2019). The authors engage in a polemics with
the assertion that autoethnography is able to depict more efficiently
than other scientific discourses the reality of the university after the
neo-liberal reforms. We also oppose „the workers’ perspective” as promoted by O. Szwabowski, which is to replace the traditional view
of the university as an elitist site and of the faculty as a particularly
privileged class. Further, the article points out at certain shortcomings
of theoretical Marxism which O. Szwabowski uses to criticize and
envision the change of the functioning of the academic milieu along
with the transformation of the very way we perceive social research –
from an individualistic and competetive perspective, to one that
is collective and geared in social engagement and intervention.
Ultimately, we charge Oskar Szwabowski with an inconsistency which
amounts to a contradiction between his notorious call upon academics
to realize that the university has become a mass-production company,
and the faculty have been turned into the new proletariat, and his
resonant grievance upon the poor conditions of work therein.