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André de Avillez

Why Liberal Academics and Ivory Tower Radicals Make Poor Revolutionaries - Youngist - 1 views

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  • André de Avillez on 17 Feb 14
     
    "Try reading any academic text from your local women's studies, ethnic studies, post-colonial studies, or anthropology department. The texts are almost always written so that only academics can understand. Some students and scholars call it "acadamese." It is writing that needs to be decoded before it can be understood. This is what inaccessible language looks like in academic texts written about oppressed groups, but not for them."
  • André de Avillez on 17 Feb 14
     
    This strikes me as the kind of article we ought to invite for commenting, review, and publication. If this could be improved without devolving into "academese" (as she calls it), it would be a great article.
André de Avillez

Don't fear the patriarchy, girls. Just keep your knickers on - 0 views

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  • André de Avillez on 28 Feb 14
     
    Feminist (feminist-leaning) analysis of a viral conservative video promoting an economy of sex
André de Avillez

The Work of Public Work | Jacobin - 2 views

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  • At the same time, I want to hold Robin accountable to his desire for a “materialist analysis of the relationship between politics, economics, and culture.”
  • I think he wrongly characterizes the conditions under which many of these young academics are writing
  • The risk of being a public intellectual, he posits, comes from the fact that these scholars are taking time away from their academic writing
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  • The workload of academics has increased exponentially in recent years, as has been well-documented
  • I have found that writing for popular audiences is not solely an internal passion, but has actually become an external demand of young scholars, another metric by which their job application or tenure-file is evaluated.
  • The problem is that Robin goes on to romanticize the lives of young scholar-writers, saying that their work arises from intrinsic desires, whose realization is made possible by new technology:
  • Young scholars are compelled to transform themselves into academic entrepreneurs, creating a brand that they promote through their blogs, tweets, and online profiles.
  • The swelling workloads of academics are indicative of the micropolitics of neoliberalism
  • The mantra of “publishing early and often” has intensified, especially in a tight job market. As tenured horizons grow grimmer, new scholars must do anything they can to stand out above a crowd of over-achievers. Publish early, publish often — and now, publish online.
  • Consider the website Academia.edu
  • But the site also exemplifies the quantification of the productive self, with each profile displaying the number of views, article downloads, and followers for each academic.
  • It’s no wonder that I’ve also seen a growing number of colleagues (myself included) add a “Public Scholarship” section to their CVs
  • The labor of public intellectualism is more than a political project, or even a charitable effort of self-expression — it’s another manifestation of exploitation
  • As a result, young academics trying to keep up with new media are writing, reading blogs and engaging in Twitter wars during lunch breaks, between teaching commitments, and well into the night.
  • To meet the demands of academic capitalism, there’s now even less of a chance of ever clocking out.
  • Yes, let us praise the young writers whose voices are being seen and heard across the blogosphere, and luxuriate in the possibilities of transcending the borders of the Ivory Tower. But let us not forget that writing, even on the Internet, and even for the “public good,” is still work. And whenever we’re encouraged to do more work, we should be a bit wary.
  • André de Avillez on 25 Feb 14
     
    A response to Corey Robin's response to Kristof's article, raising troubling concerns regarding the commodification of public scholarship.  Seems worth amplifying, in conjunction with the critiques of Kristof's piece or on its own.
André de Avillez

Toxicity: The True Story of Mainstream Feminism's Violent Gatekeepers | - 0 views

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  • André de Avillez on 25 Feb 14
     
    Article arguing that concepts like "toxicity" and "politics of reponsibility" reflect white priviledge amongst some feminists
Mark Fisher

Essays in Philosophy | Vol 15 | Iss 1 - 2 views

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  • Mark Fisher on 24 Jun 14
     
    This is a 2014 volume of essays on the current status of Public Philosophy. A lot of interesting stuff here.
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