Paper Short Abstract:

In my paper I argue that writer’s and anthropological awareness can be constructed in opposition to new managements in academic humanities. Therefore, this paper presents how various ways of writing may transgress neoliberal academia and form instead a mode of ethnographic experimentation.

Paper Abstract:

In this paper I will argue that writer’s and anthropological awareness can be constructed in opposition to some new managements in academic humanities, namely against the recommendations to “write a lot” and achieve the “productive academic writing” Therefore, I will show how some ways of writing and forms of anthropological understanding may transgress such neoliberal recommendations and form instead a mode of ethnographic experimentation and specific anthropological sensibility. I will present how some of my recent ethnographic accounts were re-developed and re-built in theatre-laboratories in Węgajty in northern Poland. I aim to prove that such acting-writing can be a legitimate perspective and can bring a new vocabulary for anthropological knowledge-making. Spread in time, those activities can select, contrast, and empower ethnographic memories: motives, concepts, phantasmagorias, and thus can escape the linear time order of the text. They may become a part of the process of constructing/educating attention and at the same time document the very intimate and affective sphere of the knowledge obtained during the fieldwork.