Good thing I never expressed indiscriminate hostility to all forms of institutions, only to one institution in particular.
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Replying to @gygestheking
I said this, your problem is with the organizers, but the course programmers have done a good job to secure instructors and students. It's like you don't go to a school because you hate the dean.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
No it's like not going to a school which claims to be for open minded independent thinkers that encourage freedom of inquiry but censor and reject any thought outside their narrow definition of these parameters.
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Replying to @gygestheking
I don't know what you experienced or when you took a course. Earlier time, it was admittedly malfunctioning on many levels. But I don't let these things happen in critical philosophy program, nor does Jason Mohaghegh in his program. My sincere apologies if you had to deal with it
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
I'm referring to them bending the knee and firing Land. Maybe the internal culture has grown a spine since then, I'll have to take your word for it.
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Replying to @gygestheking
You see this is what happens when you accept funds from wrong people or have idiots on your board member. But this is not exclusive to the New Centre. Land is canceled so if you are a publisher and have a major distributor, the distributor won't distribute that book.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
It certainty isn't exclusive but that's no excuse. It's like their first (and probably easiest) test to stand up for their principles and immediately failed at the first sign of trouble.
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Replying to @gygestheking
I know and that's regrettable. But you just can't imagine the amount of pressure that an institute or a publisher should tolerate before it is decimated into oblivion. For what? For someone who doesn't even recognize the sacrifices you have made and the ruin you've incurred?
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
If the entire purpose of the institution is intellectual inquiry then the "for what" would be the integrity of that institution. There are always antagonistic forces, just as there are people more likely to respect those who stand up against them.
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Replying to @gygestheking
No, that's not the entire aim of an educational institution. The aim is diverse. it should promote the growth of promising instructors and students. Should give them some means of survival. All things considered should be the slogan.
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I tend to think like that the intellectual integrity should always come first but that's a form of idealism that heavily backfires in the real world. People you could promote and support lose their opportunity because of one person who doesn't even believe in collective education
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