Clint

I have a PhD in English literature and a blue belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu 🤷‍♂️.

[Clint @clintjterrell]

In the spirit of being accountable to a constituency (as academics should be), I am making my recently filed dissertation immediately public and it will be searchable in Proquest for citation purposes as soon as it is accepted by my university. https://t.co/SIqHF42moC

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Ngl, making up a code of conduct for a world that does not exist and may never exist is top tier future tripping.

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@Lux_R_Spiral What if they just start calling themselves democrats?

[Clint @clintjterrell]

I mean academics just need to be more considerate about who their audience is.

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Academics write for each other, not for people.

Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort."

"There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times?

It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."

[Clint @clintjterrell]

@ericanextdooor He’s Irish Catholic. Shit posting is a big part of his spirituality.

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@muheediva01 TV

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What are Americans going to do when their government tells them they can’t buy one of these for $8,500?

[El Grillo 🇲🇽 @GrilloHillo]

Los Olina en Sinaloa

[Clint @clintjterrell]

@PerellClips So the problem is we don’t have enough top 40 scholars. Got it.

[Clint @clintjterrell]

Tbh, my main gripe about the humanities is they don’t make philosophers train wrestling anymore. They wouldn’t come for us so hard if they knew we could beat their asses.

[Clint @clintjterrell]

Hypothetically we’re not doing genocides anymore, what’s the move in humanities and social sciences?

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

who up doing activist postmodern scholarship to undermine the humanities?

[Clint @clintjterrell]

Hypothetically we’re not doing genocides anymore, what’s the move in humanities and social sciences?

[Clint @clintjterrell]

Has he even checked booktwt lately? He should know people are out here reading 500 books a day, so this is obviously a skill issue.

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Academics write for each other, not for people.

Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort."

"There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times?

It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."

[Clint @clintjterrell]

@pensandpoison Depends on what country they’re in

[Die Anglofrage @yurtbayan]

To all new Marxists, I know the jargon can be daunting. Here's a list of a few definitions to help you get started:

Idealism = doing Marxism in the most ideal way
Revisionism = Seeing the world in a new light
Opportunism = taking opportunities
Adventurism = doing adventures

[Clint @clintjterrell]

@weiss_hadas Have you tried MMA yet?

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@lebanesesami Still not enough.

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@stephanicci Idk, getting high with rich people was always hit or miss.

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@WB_Baskerville “The base and the super structure”—nothing mystical about that at all.

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@mitrajoy_ That’s so 2016

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@africanrhizome How about 5 hours just staring at books but not actually reading them?

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@matthiasellis @QuinnLester This is basically every coastal city in California. Everyone could afford a Ferrari if they want, but they drive tacomas and wear flannels and will even go work in the trades because it fits their aesthetic but you find out their family owns half the city.