... any more than I am always a pleasure to myself

because the number of times your work has been cited is an important metric in academia, the obvious play is to coin a term that describes a hyper-specific but ill-defined phenomenon, and then your article essentially becomes a dictionary entry that you invented to be cited ad nauseam by people in your subfield. doesn’t really matter how beneficial your contribution is, if you can coin new jargon, you’re more likely to get cited. the incentive to chase citations produces a wealth of articles/books that don’t really have anything meaningful to say but have some catchy term attached to it. I think a consequence of this in popular online discourse is that people seem to think that inventing a term = doing theory, which is how you get shit like “isomisogyny”

Reblog if you too are a real amiable sort of freak with a very wide smile, just keeping pace.

very funny to see people on here treat non-fiction as 1) a coherent category 2) the "teaches you things" genre in order to position themselves as intellectuals

A racist substacker and the culture-war media coverage that followed his lead hounded Jason Arday to death, and the academic institution that had been perfectly happy to extract all the image-value he could offer them did fuck all to protect him from being made an example by Twitter and Telegraph ghouls. Meanwhile, the entire goddamn global economy is debt-leveraged on an industry built on massive intellectual theft and knowledge enclosure, and countless universities are laying off faculty to buy into contracts that will allow plagiarism machines to data-mine their students. On the surface it's ironic, but both developments are about making the work of democratizing and liberating education impossible.

(opening the author’s works page after finishing a fic) and if im lucky they’ll have written this exact same fic but different a bunch more times

Nothing makes you think My One Precious Life. My One Precious Life Is Slipping Away And There’s Nothing I Can Do About It. quite like working a job does

"tits or arse" is out; are you a mouth guy or a bloody stump guy

whichever you prefer its all good because his head is 💯💯💯