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 song of ‘(Wo)Men of Points’ . . .
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