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(Reblogged from anothergirlontheirt)
Scholarly books shouldn’t have to be bestsellers, but they’d better damn well try to speak to a broader audience than just a scholar’s immediate colleagues. Moreover, scholars have a responsibility to act as public servants to a degree, no matter if their institutions are public or private. We ought to think in public. We ought to be expanding our spheres of influence and inspiration with every page we write. We ought to be trying to influence the world, not just the blinkered group that goes to our favorite conference. And that principle ought to hold no matter your topic of interest, be it Proust or videogames or human factors engineering or the medieval chanson de geste. No matter your field, it can be done, and people do it all the time. They’re called “good books.
Ian Bogost -WRITING BOOKS PEOPLE WANT TO READ
Thoughts, Internet?
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The only way I could agree with this more?
Is if Sister and the Sisters popped out and starting crooning an original Curtis Mayfield tune.*
That is to say that I agree.
*Sparkle reference. Get some effin’ culture. :D
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