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(Tenured Radical)

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Quick Study...

... is my friend Scott McLemee's new blog -- it's part of the Arts Journal blog network. Here he introduces himself:


"I find it difficult to speak of having a 'career.' It has never seemed a particularly useful concept, at least for defining my own experience, and in any case, its presuppositions seem not to apply. For the notion of a "career" is always cumulative, progressive, relentlessly forward-looking."


This may remind you of something I quoted from Juan Cole in a recent post:

"The question [in a Chronicle of Higher Ed forum] is whether Web-log commentary helps or damages an academic's career. It is a shameful question. Intellectuals should not be worrying about "careers," the tenured among us least of all.




All of this anti-careerism is a very good thing. A sign of a serious person. Scott brings his free-range intellectuality to a new place on the web.
Posted at: 2/04/2007 08:03:00 PM