Święta Drzemka: Odpoczynek jako opór?
Holy Nap: Rest as Resistance?

Summary/Abstract: The authors inquire about the possibility of rest and its place in Polish social life. The starting point is Tricia Hersey’s revolutionary book Rest is Resistance. A Manifesto. Hersey critiques the late capitalist aversion to rest and perceiving it as an immoral waste of time, rooting her approach in the history of her Ancestors, understood as members of her family, but also more general, earlier Ancestors, victims of slavery. The author elevates rest to a spiritual practice, a form of resistance and reparation. The ideas in the book are promoted through the Nap Ministry, an online community and an artistic practice. The authors of the text consider whether and to what extent it is possible to apply the wisdom of the Black philosopher to our lives, whether we can learn to rest and alter its negative moral connotation, present in contemporary Polish grind culture. To this end, the authors analyze their positioning as people – including as women and scholars – raised in Poland at the breakthrough of centuries and systems.

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