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Steve Fuller
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Steve Fuller
@ProfSteveFuller
Prof of Sociology, @warwickuni. Founder of Social Epistemology and Author of Humanity 2.0 and Post Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game
University of Warwick Beigetreten Temmuz 2011
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@STS_News @TonySiewert Well, in a way he does that, but instead of the usual Frankfurt School way of doing it, Zizek relies on the French thinkers, reflecting his own intellectual formation.
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@ProfSteveFuller @TonySiewert I see. I thought you meant more like Freud-Marx synthesis.
Those two I get.
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How do you disentangle the views from the person? I feel unable to do so, and I'm not sure if that's 'bad'.
Like, I feel, there was a time where your views could bring you fame and status. And that, currently, is just not there anymore. So, why should I care about views of someone else, who clearly is in the same "shit" as we all are?
Zizek for me, what little I have read from him, was never inspiring. Sure, he had philosophical depths, but it always felt immature on an emotional basis. Like, if all you can do is write well, but generally are an asocial person who can't coherently formulate anything while talking, in addition to having clearly wrong political positions - engaging with someone like that never feels 'suitable' to the challenges of our time.
Steve Fuller@ProfSteveFuller
My views about #Zizek have varied a lot, perhaps because I've focused too much on his content and not enough on his person. He is exemplary in bringing sophisticated philosophical discussion into the public space, where it belongs--and on an industrial scale that suits our times.
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@ProfSteveFuller @TonySiewert That's an interesting way to put it, Steve.
What first-second generation Marx-Freudian thinkers do you think he most directly builds on?
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This is compounded stupidity. Suppose we criminalize abortion up to birth. Who will support the children brought into birth? If the parents can't, will guys like him send them to prison and then raise taxes on everyone else to support the offspring? Possibly!
Charlie Downes@cfdownes_
Abortion up to birth is monstrous. It is a symptom of a society that has utterly given up on itself. The Government has just voted to decriminalise it. Restore Britain will reverse that.
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Is Michael Gibbons, former head of Commonwealth Universities and co-creator of 'Mode 2' knowledge production (a 90s thing), available somewhere?
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@Ljiljana1972 Even better: Set up a futures market for toilet paper!
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@Elainebks @carlgomb That's certainly true, which helps to explain some of the biases in what people research.
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@carlgomb @ProfSteveFuller Often required to do research and publish papers outside of teaching.
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Perhaps, but only as long as the admin task is not rewarded too much. That's the Original Sin of the modern university. It should be seen as more of a penance.
Carl Gombrich@carlgomb
@ProfSteveFuller Which is why I think it would be interesting to found a university in which everyone is an academic of some sort and everyone has to do at least one of the admin functions as part of their contract.
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This guy is the UK Shadow Justice Minister. His statements reflect a kind of theophobia not seen since the early days of secularism in Europe.
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.
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Founding Dean. Perhaps I myself have conflated this sometimes, but that's a mistake, albeit one many people wouldn't understand.
Look at it this way: would LIS exist without me?
Answer: Yes, because its founders are excellent and determined people. Would it have made such progress and - dare I say it - been so interesting? Answer: probably not (though you'd have to ask the founders.)
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@ProfSteveFuller @weareLIS Where have I done that? I'm immensely proud of LIS and what we achieved there. But I wasn't a founder. It would be dishonest to claim that.
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@ProfSteveFuller It's more interesting than that. Very few academics actually have the skills, temperament or know-how to start a finance-based organisation from zero.
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@ProfSteveFuller Not really. I was the founding Dean and first academic, but not the founder. Important difference!
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@carlgomb But this is non-trivial in today's culture, where academics who've run out of steam see admin roles as the next gravy train.
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@ProfSteveFuller Yes, agree. The cultural expectations around this would need to be clear.
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@carlgomb That's fine, if that's what happens. Unfortunately, once someone gets an admin role (esp. with a title), they find it easier to magnify its significance than actually do the job. You see this in academic 'workload' debates.
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@ProfSteveFuller I think many would enjoy it - some website design, school visits, registry work, etc, as a change from research, teaching and assessment, and it would be just seen as part of a normal contract.
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Habermas was like the UK monarch in the public intellectual sphere. If you were even to hint that the guy was a disaster, the 'public sphere' would collapse immediately and chaos would ensue... 😜
Samuel Moyn 🔭@samuelmoyn
Habermas watch: It's fascinating that both "Commentary" and "First Things" could publish laudatory pieces on his passing, much as "Jacobin" did. What does this tell us? firstthings.com/jurgen-haberma…
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My views about #Zizek have varied a lot, perhaps because I've focused too much on his content and not enough on his person. He is exemplary in bringing sophisticated philosophical discussion into the public space, where it belongs--and on an industrial scale that suits our times.
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