Samuel Nowak
Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Numer 3 (13) , 2012, s. 273 - 286
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.12.024.0987
Gay and Lesbian Studies: Reactivation
My article encourages rethinking of LGBT studies legacy, a discipline which does not exist in the Polish university, yet it received a doubtful reputation. The popular narrative opposes contemporary lesbian and gay studies to queer theory – LGBT studies is claimed to be transhistorical, essentialist and anachronical. In my paper I argue that that approach is mistaken and I provide for positive arguments in favour of a critical return to the lesbian and gay scholarship. These four arguments are as following: interrelations with cultural studies; interest in sexuality and operations of the market; understanding and celebration of popular culture; creative tensions between LGBT studies and queer theory.
Samuel Nowak
Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Numer 2 (28), 2016, s. 196 - 218
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.16.015.5367The wolf can never be satiated. Entrepreneurialuniversities, commercialisation of research and university-business cooperation
The article is a critique of the entrepreneurial university model. Its first thesis states the academia cannot be regarded as an element of the industry supply chain. The second thesis deals with an issue of double funding: the very process of commercialisation of research is based on funding of private and thus commercial enterprises with public resources. Unlike many writings
on this subject, it’s not the article’s aim to defend an academic knowledge community in its traditional mode. Drawing on selected private-public partnership models, the authors reveal the history of entrepreneurial university concept: its legal and political origin, as well as basic presumptions. In the following analysis they describe and test its utility on its own terms.