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That thing about academia

2010Feb0220:38

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So I've been trying to work out how to develop the theme I started a week or two ago about how academia seems always to avoid, escape and devalue "practice" even as it strives to be the only institution that might legitimise that "practice". It was a long-winded post about complicated academic language, written with complicated academic language.

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Author: joe:Menticulture
Categories: system:imported:Menticulture, language, writing, academia, practice, love,
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Academia vs Practice

2010Jan1322:28

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A thought experiment around practice-led research in academia.

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Author: joe:Menticulture
Categories: system:imported:Menticulture, academia, practice, research, language, genre, translation, learning,
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The Paradoxical Academic

2009Nov0221:28

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The most impressive management skill is to be able to hold and argue in favour of two contrary, exclusive and irreconcilable positions at the same time.

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Author: joe:Menticulture
Categories: system:imported:Menticulture, academia, management,
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Draft review notes #2

2009Sep0221:45

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[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]

So much for the pressure to conserve industry interests: capital ensures 'quality' and disseminates self-perpetuating ideological discourses, while the vernacular and the demotic voices are marginalised and reminded of their powerlessness.

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Author: joe:Menticulture
Categories: system:imported:Menticulture, Chomsky, Marx, media, politics, propaganda, ideology, academia, revolution, what-is-to-be-done,
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Draft review notes #2

2009Sep0219:45

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[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]

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Author: joe:Menticulture
Categories: system:imported:Menticulture, Chomsky, Marx, media, politics, propaganda, ideology, academia, revolution, what-is-to-be-done,
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Draft review notes #1

2009Aug2910:09

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[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]

In the early 2000s, following the dot-com crash, the press, the broadcasting, music and publishing industries reassured themselves that 'online' would never seriously encroach onto their activities.

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Author: joe:Menticulture
Categories: system:imported:Menticulture, phd, media, participatory media, academia, propaganda,
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Draft review notes #1

2009Aug2908:09

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[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]

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Author: joe:Menticulture
Categories: system:imported:Menticulture, phd, media, participatory media, academia, propaganda,
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2008-08-01T10:01:50Z]

2008Aug0110:01

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Author: joe:delicious
Categories: system:imported:delicious, reading, books, entropy-meme, psychology, literacy, orality, edward-said, orientalism, islam, post-colonialism, wikipedia, google, knol, knowledge, expertise, journalism, msm, media-participation, citizen-journalism, capitalism, democracy, economics, free-trade, hypocrisy, market, technologies-of-the-self, memory, surveillance, p2p, ISP, BPI, RIAA, piracy, copyright, music, commerce, business, trolls, trolling, online, behaviour, academia, open-access, information,
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2007Oct2619:47

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Author: joe:delicious
Categories: system:imported:delicious, academia, learning, research, network, arts, humanities, humour, lol, programming, code, awesome, media-participation, citizen-journalism, journalism, msm, calligramme, poetry, words, art, visual,
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2007-04-10T12:04:23Z]

2007Apr1012:04

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Author: joe:delicious
Categories: system:imported:delicious, e-learning, blended-learning, blogging, theory, academia, social, emi, riaa, apple, drm, flash, game, online, bullying, safety, cyberbullying, predation, grooming, ARG,
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2007Mar0100:37

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, spam, hack, mob, community, video, documentary, archive, porn, law, RIAA, piracy, copyright, propaganda, history, academia, memory, activism, music, industry, audio, format, software, advertising, future,
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2007-02-08T11:54:17Z]

2007Feb0811:54

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Author: joe:delicious
Categories: system:imported:delicious, pipes, programming, mashup, academia, censorship, music, torture, war, weapon, military, blogging, ARG, perplex-city, DRM, content, online, market, commerce, apple, riaa, bittorrent, propaganda, politics, cat, meme, pictures, humour, activism, community, lifeblogging, game, vision, neurology, brain, tagging, folksonomy, survey, statistics, wikipedia, quality, advertising, guerilla, stealth, streetart, learning, discourse, violence,
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2007-01-09T00:41:41Z]

2007Jan0900:41

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, theory, literature, post-structuralism, science, language, academia, game, media-effects, streetart, avant-garde, technology, audio, anarchist, education, iran, censorship, book, publishing, capitalism, death, first-person-media, mp3, file-sharing, DRM, RIAA, commerce, graffiti, second-life, OSS, violence, race, stereotype,
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-12-09T08:14:41Z]

2006Dec0908:14

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, network-neutrality, bbc, ms, hacking, vista, OLPC, information, literacy, south-park, censorship, msm, libertarianism, research, science, industry, academia, glasses,
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-04-06T11:35:46Z]

2006Apr0611:35

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, RIAA, music, piracy, sales, science, academia, funding, religion, post-structuralism, evolution, php, http-auth, research, future, trends, tiktaalik, art, podcasting, britannica, nature, wiki, quality, archive, copyright, market, US, IP, OSS, net-neutrality, us, law, death, apocalypse, genocide, ecology, population, news, msm, internet, journalism,
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Evil Bidet of Elitism

2005Jun3012:11

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Where does the idea that some things are not worthy of 'academic' study come from?

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Author: joe:menticulture
Categories: system:imported:menticulture, elitism, media, academia, postmodernism,
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Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2005-06-25T11:59:07Z]

2005Jun2511:59

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, internet, information, sociology, retro, mix-tape, podcasting, blog, satire, tech, folksonomy, cyberart, art, multimedia, video, community, public, radio, feeds, china, firewall, digital, divide, academia, open, access, research, streetart, pr, msm, news, animation, search, engine, uk, electronic, sound, gadgets, personal, hacker, music, mashup, grassroots, science, eclectic, media, ethics,
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