Surprised at how little discussed academic compsification is as a phenomenon
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Book lists get longer and arguments grow more digestible and frontloaded to accommodate ever more superficial and cursory readings, and this becomes a value considered to be necessary and proper for humanities prose
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The pressures of self-marketing in an ever more competitive job and publishing market lead to caricatured representations of both others' work and one's own
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As it becomes accepted that no one ever reads the middle chapters of a book or the middle sections of a manuscript, huge amounts of work become reclassified effectively as filler
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Replying to @athenogenes
What do we do about it? (I don’t know)
5:07 AM - 18 Nov 2017
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