I find the most insidious element to the new crisis-era PMC is that they equate non-conformity to their linguistic codes to participating with direct violence or harm against (the marginalized, the environment or whatever) - which you touched on here.
Excellent writing. You managed to articulate intuitions and snippets of observations that I have had over the years but never dwelled on for too long. This is a worthy critique of our time of which there is far too little about. Needless to say, I disagree with Seth below.
30 footnotes. A true marker of PMC oneupmanship. This is all so fucking boring, And Bourdieu. The worst
"But journalistic forces and manipulation can also act more subtly. Like the Trojan Horse, they introduce heteronomous agents into autonomous worlds. Supported by external forces, these agents are accorded an authority they cannot get from their peers. These writers for nonwriters or philosophers for nonphilosophers and the like, have television value, a journalistic weight that is not commensurate with their particular weight in their particular world.
...What I find it difficult to justify is the fact that the extension of the audience is used to legitimate the lowering of the standards of entry into the field. People may object to this as elitism, a simple defense of the citadel of big science and high culture, or even an attempts to close out ordinary people (by trying to close off television to those who with their honoraria and their and showy lifestyles, claim to be representative of ordinary men and women, on the pretext that they can be understood by these people and will get high audience ratings). In fact, I am defending the conditions necessary for the production and diffusion of the highest human creations."
Very good piece!
I find the most insidious element to the new crisis-era PMC is that they equate non-conformity to their linguistic codes to participating with direct violence or harm against (the marginalized, the environment or whatever) - which you touched on here.
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Excellent writing. You managed to articulate intuitions and snippets of observations that I have had over the years but never dwelled on for too long. This is a worthy critique of our time of which there is far too little about. Needless to say, I disagree with Seth below.
30 footnotes. A true marker of PMC oneupmanship. This is all so fucking boring, And Bourdieu. The worst
"But journalistic forces and manipulation can also act more subtly. Like the Trojan Horse, they introduce heteronomous agents into autonomous worlds. Supported by external forces, these agents are accorded an authority they cannot get from their peers. These writers for nonwriters or philosophers for nonphilosophers and the like, have television value, a journalistic weight that is not commensurate with their particular weight in their particular world.
...What I find it difficult to justify is the fact that the extension of the audience is used to legitimate the lowering of the standards of entry into the field. People may object to this as elitism, a simple defense of the citadel of big science and high culture, or even an attempts to close out ordinary people (by trying to close off television to those who with their honoraria and their and showy lifestyles, claim to be representative of ordinary men and women, on the pretext that they can be understood by these people and will get high audience ratings). In fact, I am defending the conditions necessary for the production and diffusion of the highest human creations."