Pieśni dezalienacji
Songs of Disalienation

On the Hopes and Pitfalls of Autoethnography on the Margins of Oskar Szwabowski’s Project

Summary/Abstract: Review: Oskar Szwabowski, Nekrofilna produkcja akademicka i pieśni partyzantów.Autoetnografia pracy akademickiej i dydaktycznej w czasach zombie-kapitalizmu(Necrophilic Academic Production and the Songs of Partisans: Authoethnography ofAcademic Research and Teaching in Times of Zombie Capitalism), Instytut PedagogikiUniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2019.The review critically reflects on the potential and limitations of the autoethnographicmethod seen as an analytical tool supporting a better understanding of academic workin the context of the academia’s neoliberal reform in Poland. The review focuses on OskarSzwabowski’s book Nekrofilna produkcja akademicka i pieśni partyzantów (NecrophilicAcademic Production and the Songs of Partisans), which explores alternative forms ofacademic writing and more democratic model of didactics. The text then addressesthe therapeutic-compensatory function of autoethnography, linking it to Szwabowski’saffirmation of the art of parrhesia and the community-forming aspect of collaborativewriting. Moreover, the review draws attention to the shortcomings of the book, arguingfor a more nuanced, diverse vision of neoliberalism, along with a more in-depth use ofthe possibilities offered by Donna Haraway’s situated knowledge.

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