Open AccessEducation network pirates, corporate control and the inverted panopticon: about the unfulfilled pandemic promise
Author(s) -
Oskar Szwabowski
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studia z teorii wychowania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-4078
pISSN - 2083-0998
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0015.4827
Subject(s) - panopticon , authoritarianism , pandemic , democracy , political science , control (management) , covid-19 , neoliberalism (international relations) , dimension (graph theory) , sociology , political economy , public relations , criminology , economic growth , law , management , economics , medicine , mathematics , disease , pathology , politics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pure mathematics
There are two issues in the article. The first concerns the educational dimension of the pandemic in social spaces. The second issue is about the possibility that the pandemy opens up for academic education. I believe that the pandemic crisis could have provided a progressive lessons and an impetus for a pro-democratic change, both in society and in institutionalized education. However, this lesson has not been learnt, and the pandemic itself has been used to intensify authoritarian tendencies in the womb of the (post)neoliberal world.