Psucie wiedzy i znikające instytucje
Knowledge Corruption and Disappearing Institutions

The Neoliberalizing Academy

Summary/Abstract: This text stems from an autoethnographic process implemented within the frameworkof the NCN Opus 19 research project “Social Circulation of Knowledge in the Humanities.”Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s method of self-reflexive sociological analysis orobjectivization – along with critical university studies reflection – the author treatsthe autoethnographic process as a complement to analyses of global, structural, andsystemic transformations, assuming that its effect is not so much the reconstruction ofan autobiographical perspective but rather an investigation of the relationship betweenthe subjective and institutional dimensions of academic practice. In this case, theobject of study is the process of the institutional “disappearance” of the academiafrom the experience of its actors – researchers – which is linked to the mechanismsof the academy’s neoliberalization and the phenomenon of “knowledge corruption”(C. Crouch). Autoethnographic notes provide illustrations of the university’s institutionalrestructuring process that occurred following J. Gowin’s reform. Moreover, they provideinsight into the experience of participating in the description of the “third criterion”evaluation.

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