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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The most powerful critique I've ever read on the destruction of academia is simply the work coming from academia itself. One moment of browsing the
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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.
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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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These papers don't spring up ex nihlio; often, they are given a grant. Virtually ALWAYS, they have an academic advisor, a department chair, and all sorts of others who SHOULD be gatekeeping instead providing a green-light. Twitter does no such thing.
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Yes, such pockets are self-perpetuating. You can only shut them down from the outside.
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