'spose I'm something of an academic type. One version, at least.
Actually I don't think there's been that much academia, hereabouts;
wouldn't mind a little more, myself, though the term seems at best vaguely
determined in this spontaneous and randomly synchronic context. What's
meant, by 'academic'? Attempts to describe what we're doing with
reference to critical writings of variously plausible relevance? To
situate, historicize, rather than become situation, or history even? The
question does seem to beg this broadening of implication, what is a useful
and important critical engagement with what's going on, for any of us?
Need we imagine even that distancing?
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