#intellectualwork — Public Fediverse posts

I’m thinking about how scholarly work actually happens—not only at the desk, but while driving, scribbling, talking, idling, and letting two ideas bump into each other. Vacation work? Maybe not an oxymoron.

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"Grounded #intellectualwork, when it happens, if it ever happens again,is #uncomfortable. It tells you things you don't want to hear, makes arguments that threaten positions you hold, points out problems you'd rather not see. The #publicintellectuals of the past…afflicted the comfortable and comforted the afflicted…Our current crop//slop does the opposite. They comfort the comfortable & flatter the unflattering, and they've been doing it for so long that we've forgotten to expect anything else."