Re: <nettime> Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of "Highbrow Journalism"

[gab fest <gabfest@gmx.us>]

On 10/16/14 3:17 PM, t byfield wrote:
> Again, Morozov should've done a better job of crediting Medina's work, and
> everyone should have been more attentive to the gender aspects. But too
> many critics have batted around quantitative-lite factoids -- how many
> paragraphs, how many mentions, how many years they've been reading the _New
> Yorker_, etc. This shows just how much of the kerfuffle boils down to
> accounting (and rules-based accounting at that). It's no mystery why. Every
> academic knows that citations are the coin of the land and the key to the
> kingdom: renewal, promotion, tenure. So citations, apart from their 
> bibliographic function, also have a 
> social-economic function, like likes, or @mentions, or excellent 
> employment reviews.

Unlike the purloined letter, which fails to arrive at its intended 
destination, and continues in an arterial circulation, unread, the 
purloined idea, lacking citation, fails to regress infinitely towards 
its real origin, and its genealogy ends prematurely, interrupting its 
veinal return. And it is read.




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