Provocative essay about English lit critics destroying their own field via overpoliticization. Too much elitism & scorn for new media for me but worth reading https://www.chronicle.com/article/Dear-Humanities-Profs-We-Are/243100 … HT @MichaelSocolow CC @clairlemon @lehmannchris @RichardAbowitz
Perhaps academia is like twitter. The local bubble seems totally fine, productive and civilized. But since it is large and evolving, random teleportation may get you into a toxic wasteland and your face melts off. @RealPeerReview is specifically a travel guide into toxic waste.
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With one significant difference: imagine if the toxic tweets on twitter all had "approved for submission" stamped on it by preeminent twitter-hired administrators...if each tweet was constructed with under the advisory wing of a Twitter executive, etc.
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