One of the great cantankerous essayists of our era, the public philosopher @jehsmith , inveighs against parenthood and fun, among other things.https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2019/11/against-public-philosophy.html …
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Replying to @jasonintrator
Not even a mention of the possibility that what one writes publicly isn’t always subsumable under the institutional good (too inconvenient) or is motivated by the good of a different, non-academic community. A white perspective. But what do I know, I’m not a philosopher.
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@jehsmith is quite wrong about the attitude philosophers have towards public work, they HATE it generally and it counts against your career. But he is also wrong about why academic parents tweet the same things non-academic parents tweet about (it’s because they’re parents!).1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
He’s also wrong about fun, and I’m sure he is anti-cookies as well. I still enjoy reading him because he is incredibly cantankerous and smart. But yeah his takes can be a a bit Martian like (the comment about parents being an example). He is outside the sociology of the field.
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Replying to @jasonintrator @ykomska
Thanks Jason, I do admire in you some of the traits I lack. Some corrections: I love families (not least my own!). What I don't love is mass surveillance and the new 'job creep' that places us amidst our colleagues, ...
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... and subjects us to their judgments about whether we have the correct sociology or not, every time we tweet or post. I'm aware that non-academics are enticed into sharing their intimate lives with data hoarders as much as academics are, but the fact that my concerns about...
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... how this works are generalizable beyond the small group that interests me here doesn't mean that they don't legitimately apply to that small group. As for whether I'm in the sociology of the field (the only part of your comments here that, I confess, hurt a bit)...
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I think you don’t understand the genuine hostility a lot of analytic philosophers have for public work.
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Replying to @jasonintrator @ykomska
Ah, ok, this was the last point I meant to address, and what I wanted to say is: of course I do! I experience the hostility myself. I have first-hand certainty of it. That said, for complex economic reasons, I've noticed, and I think you must have noticed, that very recently...
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... administrators, if not yet all colleagues, are treating public work as something positive, classifying it as 'outreach', etc. That doesn't mean you won't get pushback from colleagues who don't like what you're doing or who think it's taking away from your scholarship.
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One point of substantive disagreement remains: fun is terrible!
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This thread is fun! I love it!
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