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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This is where STEM-envy strikes me as weird. Academic STEM has a very specific limited role in relation to applied domains: injecting mathematical rigor that really strengthens some things and makes certain impossible things possible. Good symbiosis that’s missing in HSS.
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STEM-envy in academia really boils down to math envy: HSS has no unique mode of rigor it can inject into larger knowledge processes that has legitimacy outside their institutions. Hence the overcompensating insistence on characterizing what they do as adding “rigor”. It ain’t.
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Look beyond tech too — acad HSS has this same complaint about politics, media, government (“politicians/movie-makers/bureaucrats don’t use our insights and rediscover what Baudrillard or Deleuze discovered”)
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