Reign of Bullshit: Bourgeois Bullshit and academic capitalism
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Academic Obscurantism: The deliberate use of needlessly difficult language in academic writing to make ideas seem deeper and more important while making criticism of those ideas more difficult. We’ve seen how critiques of academic writing are customarily deflected, we’ve heard from prominent academics who accused their colleagues of using difficult writing styles to make their ideas more insightful-seeming and harder to criticize. We’ve established that even those who should be best equipped to understand specialized academic language, academic specialists, disagree on what is necessary to communicate innovative ideas and what is self-aggrandizing word salad.
Reign of Bullshit: Bourgeois Bullshit and academic capitalism
Reign of Bullshit: Bourgeois Bullshit and…
Reign of Bullshit: Bourgeois Bullshit and academic capitalism
Academic Obscurantism: The deliberate use of needlessly difficult language in academic writing to make ideas seem deeper and more important while making criticism of those ideas more difficult. We’ve seen how critiques of academic writing are customarily deflected, we’ve heard from prominent academics who accused their colleagues of using difficult writing styles to make their ideas more insightful-seeming and harder to criticize. We’ve established that even those who should be best equipped to understand specialized academic language, academic specialists, disagree on what is necessary to communicate innovative ideas and what is self-aggrandizing word salad.