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20 Dec 07

Critique de la raison universitaire - La vie des idées

  • L’opuscule de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie part d’un paradoxe où l’on est tenté de voir une contradiction : les mêmes intellectuels – Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze et Pierre Bourdieu en l’occurrence – qui firent le procès de l’académisme universitaire et de son caractère « conservateur et répressif » dans les années 1960 et au début des années 1970, se révélèrent, à partir de la fin des années 1970, les plus rudes adversaires du système médiatique, et ce au nom du savoir et de l’institution universitaires.
  • Deux dates semblent jouer un rôle moteur dans ce revirement : 1975 et 1976. 1975, c’est la naissance de l’émission de télévision Apostrophes qui va s’imposer rapidement comme le lieu où se font les réputations et les succès éditoriaux ; 1976, c’est la naissance des « nouveaux philosophes » dont la notoriété se construit presque entièrement dans la presse.
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30 Nov 07

Dani Rodrik's weblog: Does blogging have an academic downside?

  • I can't say it doesn't cost me research. But ten people will read my papers, if I'm lucky. There's no way I will ever have the impact publishing I will have blogging--not even close--so day to day it's hard to know where to put my effort. For my personal gain, it's research and forget about the blog, but I'm not sure that's best in some bigger sense.
  • I've had someone visit my office to tell me I should stop doing it because the Department
    won't value it, and it may even undermine academic credibility having a blog, but I figure this is what tenure is for so I said I'm doing it anyway. But it does hurt my feelings (within the Department) to be so ignored. I only have two readers here--I think it's funny that I have more people who read at Harvard, Berkeley, etc. than here

Dani Rodrik's weblog: Scholarship vs. bloggership

  • my expectation was that blog popularity and scholarship would have little (or perhaps even a negative) correlation. After all, the skills of a blogger (writing quickly and well, working for short-term results, spending a lot of time reading and digesting others' work) are not necessarily those that a scholar who wants long-term impact needs to have. Plus, there is the time spent on the blog--which does mean less time for research.
  • the correlation between how well one does on bloggership and on scholarship turns out to be positive and statistically highly significant.
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