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...they're always hounding out the most ridiculous and obscure niches they can find because paper to paper and peer to peer, all the subject matter eventually runs out and you're left with this sort of twisted decadence,

overdriven & egoridden self-indulgence which nobody ever really reads anyways...(them & them only)...
...maybe I'm being a bit harsh,

but what I gloss is a vibe of smartypants vainglory...
...badtripcity dude, badtripcity.
Into Sherlock's Skull and Beyond:

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...I must say though, much has changed with the generational shifting,

would I love be to sitting in a Prof. Christian Bök classroom?

Yes.

Ditto for Charles Bernstein,

or Joan Retallack.
I just feel inadequate I guess.

LOL

:lol:
Lacking credentials,

as it were.
But Jiminy Crickets if sometimes I just roll my eyes at stuff like what is posted below, all the more so because when I was young and impressionable I would take such stuff so seriously, like the how do you like them apples scene from GWH, an endless regurgitation,

and it goes on & on.
12XU!
Rattling Sherlock's Opiate Skeleton Again and Again:

Into the White/Onto the Night
Holmes's Pipe, Tobacco Papers and the Nineteenth-century Origins of Media Addiction
(Abstract)
This article offers a new perspective on the literary character Sherlock Holmes, who, though often noted for his cocaine and morphine injections, was actually more significantly dependent on tobacco smoking and printed matter for mental stimulation. Interpreting the pipe as metaphor and metonym for print, and noting his dependency on it to solve his cases, the article proposes Holmes as an early example of the figure of the media addict. It draws on stories, novels and illustrations, primarily from the early part of the Holmes oeuvre, and focuses on ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’ (1891) (in Conan Doyle, The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes (London: Penguin, 2009) to show how tobacco smoking becomes instrumental to the solution of the case, central to Holmes's persona, and reflective of readers' own addictive media consumption. The argument is contextualized by introducing readers to visual and literary tobacco discourse, the wealth of books, periodicals, smoke-room booklets, cigarette cards, reciters, posters and other ephemera that sprang up to advertise and accompany tobacco-smoking throughout the nineteenth century. In them, smoking was constantly compared with consuming print, through puns on ‘leaves’, ‘volumes’ and ‘puffs’ of speech preserved in paper. The article shows how Holmes's characteristic pose of sitting, thinking, and smoking engages and updates the figure of the genteel, masculine, bourgeois media consumer, who typically smokes and daydreams as he reads. Tobacco and print had been linked throughout the century but ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’ fully subordinates the latter to the former, making ‘the divine weed’ the instrument of Holmes' vaunted ratiocination.
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deathmetal

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Jul 21, 2015
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He's got a point. Academia oversold itself, and now what matters is stating a unique thesis and having it echo the trendy theories of the decade, not having any kind of accurate analysis.
I place the blame at the high school level, where they teach writing as method and not process.

 
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It has been said "those that cannot do, Teach" Quite true at the university level but the only people that pay much attention to what they have to say is themselves.

 

pappymac

Lifer
Feb 26, 2015
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Those that can, do. That that can't, teach.

Academia is filled with tenured professors who have never actually worked in the field or the practical world. Why? Because there are many fields of study that don't correlate to real world jobs or because the supply of students of a particular field greatly outnumber the demand - the number of available jobs - in the field. Therefore they are left with their only recourse being teaching.

 

fordm60

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 19, 2014
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Hitler and Stalin agree with you burn the bastards and burn the books! Things were so much better when the world was flat. I personally hate math, history, literature, engineering, computers, flying, navigation, space exploration, ocean exploration, medicine, power grids and anything that keeps me from living the way I want, yep bring back the old days the good old dark ages!!
Gentleman, I must disagree. You can make fun of them, say they are horrible, disagree totally, but without learning and questioning, well we would not be on the computer in a pipe forum, smoking tobacco from all over the world, in our pipes made all over the world, enjoying a pleasant evening.

 
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Nobody's disparaging learning, just the pompous asses that populate the environment of college campuses. And what drove High Tech wasn't the colleges. They were way behind the power curve. It was Apple out of a garage. That gave rise to Microsoft and the rest was history while the colleges were still teaching people to use punch cards.

 

fordm60

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 19, 2014
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just the pompous asses that populate the environment of college campuses.
I know that what bothers me, trust me no one comes out and says lets go back there the dark ages, or all teachers must die. No, they always start by making fun of the pompous asses. Then there are more pompous asses, and more, then fuck it lets take em out and burn some books hey they deserve it.....right?
Also computers were not started by apple. First were used for research and military. Sure some the stuff they study seems stupid, but the problem historically is humans never seem to be able to tell what is important or dumb. Then something happens and the idiot studying something stupid has the key to move forward. If that researcher had not be able to study the key would not be there when we need it.
Galileo almost got put to death because he indicated the Earth was not the center of the universe. "Dumb pompus intellectual ass how dare he tell us we are not the center of the universe!".
Makes me nervous.......

 

pappymac

Lifer
Feb 26, 2015
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Fordm60, no one said to burn them. As a young military photojournalist I with 4 years experience, I took college courses to further my knowledge. Kept butting heads with one instructor over writing styles, specifically, I used the AP Style Guide for writing non-fiction and she didn't understand why I wrote the way I did. When I complained to a counselor I was told to cut her some slack because she had just graduated the year before and had never worked in the field.

 

fordm60

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 19, 2014
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Ok, OK. Maybe. But like you and I said no one says burn them....at the start. I bow out gracefully my brothers of the Briar.

 

sablebrush52

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"Those who can, do, and those who can't teach." is a steaming load of horseshit. I've worked on over 70 features, literally hundreds of commercials, live action and animated series, animated features, mini series, won both international and national awards for realist painting, am working all the time, AND I TEACH!
Some of my best teachers were successful practitioners in their fields.

 

mayfair70

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Sep 14, 2015
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First of all, thanks for posting the videos. I seem to have forgotten how. :)
Secondly...with all due respect; MY GOD MAN !! What else do you expect from the "Journal Of Victorian Culture" anyway??? :crazy:
I don't disagree, though, I tend to also agree with fordm60. I'd be more than a little upset if it were from the American Medical Association. 8O
Punk by day, Victorian Culture by night. Be cautious sir, Steampunk KILLS !! :twisted:

 
May 31, 2012
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...with all due respect; MY GOD MAN !! What else do you expect from the "Journal Of Victorian Culture" anyway???
:lol:

LOL
I'm a sucker for such stuff.
In large part, if it wasn't for academia paying attention, then nobody would be paying attention.
In many cases, important and valuable work is being done, a sort of cultural preservation, but then again, it all too often goes way way over-the-top into lalaland goo goo for gaga upon violently insular platforms all ababble with intense intentional obscurantism,

or something.
I'm conflicted.
I have great respect for scholars and scholarship,

for teachers and teaching,

but at the same,

The Canon,

which is to say the institutionalized entity unto itself,

seems to me to be like a big vulgar monster who continually devours its own offspring,

and generally takes itself way too seriously,

and that's somewhat offputting...
...pop culture in many instances contains just as deep as insight and gives it in a way which is more inclusive and easier to access,

I dunno what I'm really saying,

or why I'm saying it?
What can I say?
I was heavily influenced by Jean Dubuffet,

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/smoking-some-65-year-old-scottish-flake-a-group-review#post-592018

...and other such weirdoes,

if I could be Alfred Jarry riding his bicycle into Comte de Lautréamont's umbrella upside-down like the Jesus & Mary Chain od'd on the big H in distorted feedbackland,

believe me, I would!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2Lw50SXHI

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I do promise though,

not to become a steampunk.
I'm an old salty skatepunk and could never dress well anyways!

:P
I'd like to be a natty chap but it just ain't in my bones.
Let's burn this mutha down.
I didn't say that.
This sentence is true.
The sentence above is false.
:puffy:

 

jackswilling

Lifer
Feb 15, 2015
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"Campus is a re-education camp, to bad a re-education to fail at life."
There is close to zero critical thinking at universities. Anything outside the P.C. coloring-book lines will get you smoked. What a joke.

 

mayfair70

Lifer
Sep 14, 2015
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I agree with that. I try to ignore it and find the academics I know are doing work I'm interested in, unless someone puts it in my face. Then I eviscerate them with my rogue scholarship and bludgeon them with my blunt intellect. :)

 
May 31, 2012
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I try to ignore it and find the academics I know are doing work I'm interested in, unless someone puts it in my face.

Then I eviscerate them with my rogue scholarship and bludgeon them with my blunt intellect.
:!:

A most excellent quote!
Words to live by.
:)
I like blunt intellect,

it's often more sharp than not,

and find that rogue scholarship, self-motivated, is usually more keen on the actual things,

a passion, if you will,

that may be lacking in more formal circumstances.
Like Killdozer said:

Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys For The Ruling Elite
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deathmetal

Lifer
Jul 21, 2015
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It was Apple out of a garage. That gave rise to Microsoft and the rest was history while the colleges were still teaching people to use punch cards.
There's a lot more complexity to it than that, especially since MSFT was more parallel to Apple than anything.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449388396/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018MM0IE/

http://www.phrack.org/

http://www.2600.com/

http://www.textfiles.com/
...hours of fun!
Death to Apple, who sold out the hacker impulse and became yuppie whores!!1! ;)

 

deathmetal

Lifer
Jul 21, 2015
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Also, sable, if anything the problem with academia is not enough teaching and too much trendy publishing. Hail to the real teachers, who are a rare and highly wonderful breed.

 
May 31, 2012
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Death to Apple, who sold out the hacker impulse and became yuppie whores!!!! :wink:
I'm pretty much a caveman and totally clueless about ultramodern computer technologies,

but I was somehow enthralled by Neal Stephenson's essay,

it somehow made something about it all more understandable or graspable, but that was written in 1999,

my how the world has gotten on since then!
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
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