The article discusses the pervasive status anxiety in American academia, highlighting the pressures to showcase achievements on social media. It critiques how academic elites display their successes, cultivate an in-group identity, and neglect broader inclusivity. The author argues that true knowledge should embrace openness and imperfection, rejecting the polished narratives fostered by a nouveau riche academic class. Emphasizing the social nature of knowledge, the piece calls for a shift towards recognizing diverse perspectives and embracing the messiness of human experience.
In between these pathetic signals, a shot or two of the dog, a child, a gorgeous day framed neatly-no, perfectly-like an online advert.
They invoke the in-group. They make a showcase out of the things that were afforded. Are they sharing these with all?
The rough, messy, incomplete, and unpolished should prevail as part of the useful and the available.
Knowing is a social process, too, admitting of perspectives. Indeed, our perspectives on the world are something.
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