Academia: Spend your life absorbing everything that's ever been said about a topic in order to hopefully add a tiny increment of original thought to it Tech: Disregard everything that's ever been said about a topic and confidently rediscover other fields' most basic ideas
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yeah. i suppose that academia has made much of its knowledge too esoteric/irrelevant to be accessed by the outsiders like tech even if they wanted to
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I think the blindness I see is a functional fixedness. The presumption that there’s no alternative path (let alone shorter, simpler) to say deleuzean insights than the one their tradition reveres. It’s not just tech that has this problem with acad humanities social science.
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