Still not really blogging
but it turns out that throwing up links takes very little time at all. So go read about being an academic vs. being an activist. And then decide whether you agree with the conclusions.Link to the original Salon article, which requires a silly day pass.
posted by Elizabeth @ 10:21 PM
3 Comments:
I reckon, if people want to be activists and academics at the same time (Zizek, anyone?) then it's up to them. I don't see how academics aren't activists, in the "yes this is what there is but this is what I think works" sense of the term anyway. Each to their own. Or, to use a new phrase I learnt recently, whatever floats their boat (yes, I know that's because of the Archimedes principle . I don't get most of these phrases at all. One of the drawbacks of not having English as a first language, I reckon)
On a related note, how about filmmakers? Should filmmakers be allowed to turn a fairly okay-ish book into a treacly film with lots and lots of in-your-face symbolism and really bad lines?
I'd say save your ten dollars and go see this instead. Similar themes, much better done and, while fusing activism with filmmaking, pretty amusing the way it uses some of the major tropes prevalent in heroic and adventure cinema and literature.
Did you note I can make links in comments now? Any day, I'll be adding to the list of blogs (though I still think it's something I don't have access to and that's why I can't do it.
By definition an activist is not an academic; the former deals in argument, the latter in analysis. It's the distinction between a Krugman and a Fukuyama, or a Chomsky and a Huntington or Heilbroner.
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