skarthik, 4 months ago

Second @jonny 's views on Graeber.

Even before reading his magisterial books (especially Debt), you can start here @neuralreckoning which is apposite about the current state of academia and innovation:

"There was a time when academia was society’s refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As a result, in one of the most bizarre fits of social self-destructiveness in history, we seem to have decided we have no place for our eccentric, brilliant, and impractical citizens. Most languish in their mothers’ basements, at best making the occasional, acute intervention on the Internet."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit

That article gives reasons as to why "disruptive science" has declined, and Nature doesn't seem to know why?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

@zackbatist @brembs

#Graeber #Academia