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
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Bluecheck is just verification, for accounts that are likely to be copied / spoofed / faked. I'm talking about explicit endorsement of a toxic tweet from twitter by their association with its construction, from the beginning.
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Yes, the metaphor breaks down at some point, because academia is not an actual single institution or company. Academic freedom requires that individual disciplines can set their own rules (to the degree that they can convince or capture funding agencies and oversight).
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