It's the little things that ABSOLUTELY matter.
Been doing this for a decade and I'm still perplexed academics don't get this point. Academia is all about hyperspecialization- no one careshttps://twitter.com/sethlsanders/status/841211693279539201 …
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ABSOLUTELY. Compelling stories, yes, but not if we do it wrong, ignoring the details that can shift the narrative.
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I've looked at Joyce's handwritten manuscript of Ulysses; loads of tiny details change entire meanings of passages.
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yep. We details overturn conventional and the comfortable narratives. As archaeologist this is my beef with J Diamond.
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Guns, Germs and Steel? Yeah, it can be hard for writers to let go of metanarratives when details get in the way.
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Yes, GGS but also Collapse. Both weak on details that matter in favour of simple if exciting metanarrative.
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so you dumb it down to appeal to people who care. They call that populism don't they?
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The only way to make a contribution is to steep yourself so thoroughly in a single thing that you can push the envelope slightly.
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How dare you, sir, make such a claim about academia! Our
@religioncomics group pertains to ALL...um...maybe. Hm. (Sometimes?)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SethLSanders good point.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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my wife calls me her nerd. I studied medieval lit and history. She gets the importance, not why I get excited
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@jricole Yes, we don't have the luxury of assuming what we as scholars find existentially relevant is universally shared BUT 1/4 -
... there remain issues of focus and resolution. As neat and tidy as the "big picture" may seem, 2/4
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... the "close-up" is what brings all the complications into focus, belying all this neatness and tidyness. 3/4
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"Big picture" people tend to dismiss the "close-up" and the complications it reveals as "academic," but that's a dodge.
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No one likes these complications / "nuances," but more often than not the "big picture" is artfully constructed / unreal
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