Oskar Szwabowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 657820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oskar Szwabowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oskar |
| FAMILY NAME | Szwabowski |
| SIGNATURE | SZWABOWSKI O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Szczecin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7464-0081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
This article responds to the question of what writing means in the age of artificial intelligence. I argue that the possibility of replacing authors with artificial intelligence can serve as a test of the deadness of particular forms of academic production. The less writing and inquiry lose when a particular author is removed, the more reason there is to suspect that such production was already dead: detached from embodiment, existential meaning,…
Pisanie post-Ludzkie
Artykuł rozwija koncepcję autoetnografii odzwierzęcej jako postantropocentrycznej praktyki pisania uwzględniającej relacje międzygatunkowe. Punktem wyjścia jest doświadczenie komunikacji z kotką Salomeą, które staje się impulsem do refleksji nad możliwością włączania nie-ludzkich głosów do tekstu akademickiego. W dialogu z posthumanizmem, animal studies oraz pracami Érica Barataya, Donny Haraway i Diane Davis autor analizuje problem reprezentacji…
We supervise ourselves
In this autoethnographic text, three furious voices of academics from Poland intersect. United by the sense of meaninglessness, hopelessness and structural violence we experienced in the necrophilic space of the academy, we scream, because we do not believe in the power of rational arguments. We scream as punk rock taught us to do. We scream to resist. We scream to emancipate ourselves. We scream to challenge the academy. Listen to our dirty song…
The Compulsion to Write
The text is an autoethnographic, experimental, and contemplative inquiry into a problem related to the felt compulsion to write. The text is written in a mode of continuous questioning. The author poses questions such as: Why can he not stop writing? What compelled him to do so? To explore this, he also examines academic culture and mobilizes other voices that address writing as inquiry and as a way of being
Wywrotowa lekcja metodologii – punkowy musical pogo-krytyczny
This article is an experimental form of critique of the dominant (neo)positivist tendency inherent in Polish pedagogical research methodology, but it can also refer to other disciplines within the field of social sciences, e.g. sociology or economy. Referring to the esthetics of punk and arts-based research, we present critique in the spirit of postmodernism. We trigger emotions and arouse emotions. We trigger bodies bound by methodological proce…
Ashes
This text concerns the moment of realizing the disintegration of the academic self. It is an attempt to deal with this fact
From the Semi-Periphery with Love. A Dream of a Democratic Social Science
The article highlights a set of specific solutions for international journals - “The Margin Lever”. The proposed solutions relate to changes in publishing policies and methods of reviewing texts that may contribute to overcoming the hegemony of scientists coming from the richest, top-rated, perfectly adapted universities. These universities are usually located in the richest and most developed countries - we call them the core, or the center of t…
An Introduction to Responding Autoethnography
In this article, I introduce the concept of responding autoethnography. The immediate inspiration for this concept was Ellis’s text on the amassing of many autoethnographic stories to generate collective consciousness. In my text, I present a different approach to collective consciousness and the relationship between stories: that is, collective consciousness is not a fusion of horizons; it is not a unified story, but a dirty, chaotic, pulsating,…
The Reverberations of War
The article presents a form of collective autoethnography generated by members of an informal group of academics called The Autonomous Autoethnographic Collective. The leading idea we relate to is 'reverberations' of multidimensional experiences of war in Ukraine that started on February 24, 2022. The aim of the text is to show the multiple perceptual views experienced by people situated in a borderline situation. Uncertainty of tomorrow, prolong…
Forget All Criteria
This article is reaction of article Adams (2017) and call of establishing criteria. Author wants to say, that is not good call. Such call can bring poison fruits. Author say that we don’t need any criteria to do autoethongraphy, we just need safe space to meet and speak together
“Shame on You!”
It is a collection of voices and experiences after publishing autoethnographic poems. This is about the struggle with academic subjectivity and old myths about science
On Semiperiphery Life
It is a middle text about being a middle-man. I am a middle-man from the periphery. So, this is my voice. About a life that has no matter. About what I am being taught when I try to speak within the international scientific/autoethnographic community
A Story by Academic Teachers About Distance Education in the Time of Lockdown
This article was written as part of an academic project about the autoethnographs of the times of crisis that academic teachers from several universities in Poland took part in. From the collected stories about experiencing the pandemic, we singled out the thread of distance learning. We created a multivoiced narrative and then submitted it to a collective reflection. Collective autoethnography made it possible not only to recognize changes in th…
Diary of an assistant professor
In this article, we use the zombies as a metaphor for reforms in the Polish academy and a description of how neoliberalism works. According to the interpretation of the production of zombies as a critique of late capitalism, we want to show, by using an autoethnographic method, how subjectivity, relationships with others and the world are changing in the neoliberal regime. How do reforms attempt to transform subjectivity, and raise a new academic…
Haunted by the Dark Desire
I am haunted. I am haunted by DATA. I need therapy. How is it about you
The Covid-Shock Doctrine
These are two autoethnographic voices. We speak in a strange time: democracy dies, social justice dies. A lot of people have died of the virus, many die of fear. We write to protest against new neoliberal and neoconservative 'shock doctrine.' We write together to protest against destructive self-absorption, isolation, and fear. It is protest-text. But we are not sure what we can do now
It is Too Much. Too Many Stories to Handle
This is an autoethnographic poem. It shows one of the limits of autoethnography
The Praise of Collective Autoethnography
The article is a palimpsest created as part of the project of collective autoethnographic writing. Its multiple forms formed the basis for the community and the intensification of friendly writing. After the assemblies, there were remnants. The remnants of practices from which one could crack meanings-but these are not the most important ones. This peculiar collection of artifacts is presented with a frail hope that the remnants still contain a m…
Forget all Criteria
This article is a reaction to the article by Adams (2017) and his call of establishing criteria. I argue that is not good call. Such a call can bring poison fruits. I argue we don't need any criteria to do autoethnography, we just need safe spaces to meet and speak together
Welcome at the University on Easy Street
It is a song from the dead. Death is easy and it is everywhere. 'Everybody turns.' We care about death inside us. Life is prec-ious-rity
Friendly Writing as Non-inquiry
We are a group of evocative autoethnographers who have been cooperating on various autoethnographic projects for several years. In the article, we deal with the problem related to the realization of a project concerning collective autoethnographic writing. The idea seemed quite simple: By referring to the previous events related to the writing of collective autoethnography and the event of current writing, we wanted to grasp what it is and what i…
After the First Review
This poem shows the experiences of collective writing
Letters From My Tribe
In this article, I'm trying to show the problems with co-autoethnography made on periphery in the times of neoliberal regime. The new requirements and new modes of evaluating workers and researchers transform the style of working and relations within academia and among humans in general. I'm trying to show that being global is a neocolonial tool for changing university into an entrepreneurial institution. I'm also trying to show the consequences …
Solidarity, dark solidarity, the commons and the university
Since the late 20th century, the Solidarity breakthrough of the Polish social movement has been a huge political success. Solidarity, as a specific idea, has become not only a social and political power, but also a more profound category of ethical discourse. Therefore, especially in terms of Polish public awareness, solidarity is one of the most popular theoretical notions, which is used in many different social contexts. Divergent political ide…
Krytyka „oficjalnej krytyki” neoliberalnych reform w szkolnictwie wyższym
In this article I criticise theoretical structure which is employed in critiquesof higher education reforms within the domain of pedagogy. I argue thatcritique of neoliberalism in education doesn’t recognise the dynamics of change and„necessity” of transformation. Both critique and defense of neoliberal reforms donot transcend capitalist „separation” and institutionalization typical of particularorders. In practical terms, it results in reactive …
The Praise of Collective Autoethnography
The article is a palimpsest created as part of the project of collective autoethnographic writing. Its multiple forms formed the basis for the community and the intensification of friendly writing. After the assemblies, there were remnants. The remnants of practices from which one could crack meanings-but these are not the most important ones. This peculiar collection of artifacts is presented with a frail hope that the remnants still contain a m…
Friendly Writing as Non-inquiry
We are a group of evocative autoethnographers who have been cooperating on various autoethnographic projects for several years. In the article, we deal with the problem related to the realization of a project concerning collective autoethnographic writing. The idea seemed quite simple: By referring to the previous events related to the writing of collective autoethnography and the event of current writing, we wanted to grasp what it is and what i…
The Reverberations of War
The article presents a form of collective autoethnography generated by members of an informal group of academics called The Autonomous Autoethnographic Collective. The leading idea we relate to is 'reverberations' of multidimensional experiences of war in Ukraine that started on February 24, 2022. The aim of the text is to show the multiple perceptual views experienced by people situated in a borderline situation. Uncertainty of tomorrow, prolong…
A Story by Academic Teachers About Distance Education in the Time of Lockdown
This article was written as part of an academic project about the autoethnographs of the times of crisis that academic teachers from several universities in Poland took part in. From the collected stories about experiencing the pandemic, we singled out the thread of distance learning. We created a multivoiced narrative and then submitted it to a collective reflection. Collective autoethnography made it possible not only to recognize changes in th…
The Covid-Shock Doctrine
These are two autoethnographic voices. We speak in a strange time: democracy dies, social justice dies. A lot of people have died of the virus, many die of fear. We write to protest against new neoliberal and neoconservative 'shock doctrine.' We write together to protest against destructive self-absorption, isolation, and fear. It is protest-text. But we are not sure what we can do now
Solidarity, dark solidarity, the commons and the university
Since the late 20th century, the Solidarity breakthrough of the Polish social movement has been a huge political success. Solidarity, as a specific idea, has become not only a social and political power, but also a more profound category of ethical discourse. Therefore, especially in terms of Polish public awareness, solidarity is one of the most popular theoretical notions, which is used in many different social contexts. Divergent political ide…
Walka klas w cieniu biało-czerwonej puszki
Recenzja książki: D. Sidorick, Kapitalizm z puszki: Campbell Soup i pogoń za tanią produkcją w XX wieku , Warszawa 2012
Krytyka „oficjalnej krytyki” neoliberalnych reform w szkolnictwie wyższym
In this article I criticise theoretical structure which is employed in critiquesof higher education reforms within the domain of pedagogy. I argue thatcritique of neoliberalism in education doesn’t recognise the dynamics of change and„necessity” of transformation. Both critique and defense of neoliberal reforms donot transcend capitalist „separation” and institutionalization typical of particularorders. In practical terms, it results in reactive …
Solidarity, dark solidarity, the commons and the university
Since the late 20th century, the Solidarity breakthrough of the Polish social movement has been a huge political success. Solidarity, as a specific idea, has become not only a social and political power, but also a more profound category of ethical discourse. Therefore, especially in terms of Polish public awareness, solidarity is one of the most popular theoretical notions, which is used in many different social contexts. Divergent political ide…
After the First Review
This poem shows the experiences of collective writing
Letters From My Tribe
In this article, I'm trying to show the problems with co-autoethnography made on periphery in the times of neoliberal regime. The new requirements and new modes of evaluating workers and researchers transform the style of working and relations within academia and among humans in general. I'm trying to show that being global is a neocolonial tool for changing university into an entrepreneurial institution. I'm also trying to show the consequences …
Forget all Criteria
This article is a reaction to the article by Adams (2017) and his call of establishing criteria. I argue that is not good call. Such a call can bring poison fruits. I argue we don't need any criteria to do autoethnography, we just need safe spaces to meet and speak together
Welcome at the University on Easy Street
It is a song from the dead. Death is easy and it is everywhere. 'Everybody turns.' We care about death inside us. Life is prec-ious-rity
Friendly Writing as Non-inquiry
We are a group of evocative autoethnographers who have been cooperating on various autoethnographic projects for several years. In the article, we deal with the problem related to the realization of a project concerning collective autoethnographic writing. The idea seemed quite simple: By referring to the previous events related to the writing of collective autoethnography and the event of current writing, we wanted to grasp what it is and what i…
It is Too Much. Too Many Stories to Handle
This is an autoethnographic poem. It shows one of the limits of autoethnography
The Praise of Collective Autoethnography
The article is a palimpsest created as part of the project of collective autoethnographic writing. Its multiple forms formed the basis for the community and the intensification of friendly writing. After the assemblies, there were remnants. The remnants of practices from which one could crack meanings-but these are not the most important ones. This peculiar collection of artifacts is presented with a frail hope that the remnants still contain a m…
Diary of an assistant professor
In this article, we use the zombies as a metaphor for reforms in the Polish academy and a description of how neoliberalism works. According to the interpretation of the production of zombies as a critique of late capitalism, we want to show, by using an autoethnographic method, how subjectivity, relationships with others and the world are changing in the neoliberal regime. How do reforms attempt to transform subjectivity, and raise a new academic…
Haunted by the Dark Desire
I am haunted. I am haunted by DATA. I need therapy. How is it about you
The Covid-Shock Doctrine
These are two autoethnographic voices. We speak in a strange time: democracy dies, social justice dies. A lot of people have died of the virus, many die of fear. We write to protest against new neoliberal and neoconservative 'shock doctrine.' We write together to protest against destructive self-absorption, isolation, and fear. It is protest-text. But we are not sure what we can do now
Forget All Criteria
This article is reaction of article Adams (2017) and call of establishing criteria. Author wants to say, that is not good call. Such call can bring poison fruits. Author say that we don’t need any criteria to do autoethongraphy, we just need safe space to meet and speak together
“Shame on You!”
It is a collection of voices and experiences after publishing autoethnographic poems. This is about the struggle with academic subjectivity and old myths about science
On Semiperiphery Life
It is a middle text about being a middle-man. I am a middle-man from the periphery. So, this is my voice. About a life that has no matter. About what I am being taught when I try to speak within the international scientific/autoethnographic community
A Story by Academic Teachers About Distance Education in the Time of Lockdown
This article was written as part of an academic project about the autoethnographs of the times of crisis that academic teachers from several universities in Poland took part in. From the collected stories about experiencing the pandemic, we singled out the thread of distance learning. We created a multivoiced narrative and then submitted it to a collective reflection. Collective autoethnography made it possible not only to recognize changes in th…
From the Semi-Periphery with Love. A Dream of a Democratic Social Science
The article highlights a set of specific solutions for international journals - “The Margin Lever”. The proposed solutions relate to changes in publishing policies and methods of reviewing texts that may contribute to overcoming the hegemony of scientists coming from the richest, top-rated, perfectly adapted universities. These universities are usually located in the richest and most developed countries - we call them the core, or the center of t…
An Introduction to Responding Autoethnography
In this article, I introduce the concept of responding autoethnography. The immediate inspiration for this concept was Ellis’s text on the amassing of many autoethnographic stories to generate collective consciousness. In my text, I present a different approach to collective consciousness and the relationship between stories: that is, collective consciousness is not a fusion of horizons; it is not a unified story, but a dirty, chaotic, pulsating,…
The Reverberations of War
The article presents a form of collective autoethnography generated by members of an informal group of academics called The Autonomous Autoethnographic Collective. The leading idea we relate to is 'reverberations' of multidimensional experiences of war in Ukraine that started on February 24, 2022. The aim of the text is to show the multiple perceptual views experienced by people situated in a borderline situation. Uncertainty of tomorrow, prolong…
Ashes
This text concerns the moment of realizing the disintegration of the academic self. It is an attempt to deal with this fact
Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
This article responds to the question of what writing means in the age of artificial intelligence. I argue that the possibility of replacing authors with artificial intelligence can serve as a test of the deadness of particular forms of academic production. The less writing and inquiry lose when a particular author is removed, the more reason there is to suspect that such production was already dead: detached from embodiment, existential meaning,…
Pisanie post-Ludzkie
Artykuł rozwija koncepcję autoetnografii odzwierzęcej jako postantropocentrycznej praktyki pisania uwzględniającej relacje międzygatunkowe. Punktem wyjścia jest doświadczenie komunikacji z kotką Salomeą, które staje się impulsem do refleksji nad możliwością włączania nie-ludzkich głosów do tekstu akademickiego. W dialogu z posthumanizmem, animal studies oraz pracami Érica Barataya, Donny Haraway i Diane Davis autor analizuje problem reprezentacji…
We supervise ourselves
In this autoethnographic text, three furious voices of academics from Poland intersect. United by the sense of meaninglessness, hopelessness and structural violence we experienced in the necrophilic space of the academy, we scream, because we do not believe in the power of rational arguments. We scream as punk rock taught us to do. We scream to resist. We scream to emancipate ourselves. We scream to challenge the academy. Listen to our dirty song…
The Compulsion to Write
The text is an autoethnographic, experimental, and contemplative inquiry into a problem related to the felt compulsion to write. The text is written in a mode of continuous questioning. The author poses questions such as: Why can he not stop writing? What compelled him to do so? To explore this, he also examines academic culture and mobilizes other voices that address writing as inquiry and as a way of being
Sociology (20 works) · Autoethnography (14 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works)