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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Replying to @nickgillespie @MichaelSocolow and
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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Replying to @bencamenker @nickgillespie and
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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Replying to @Plinz @nickgillespie and
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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Replying to @Plinz @nickgillespie and
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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