Real SyntacticMar 19
How am I only now learning of Jurgen #Habermas’s passing? I can’t properly account for his importance to my own intellectual development. I can trace his impact on my PhD supervisor’s scholarship more clearly than anyone’s save for maybe Adorno, Gramsci, and Raymond Williams. His account of how the culture industry grew out of “a culture-debating public” (or its self-image) was prescient and, taken together with the work of his many creative interlocutors, offers crucial hints toward a way back.
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@mirijb2

You're only now learning possibly because you're not on Bluesky? It was a big deal on Bluesky, which is where most academics went after Twitter was bought by Musk.

Mar 19 at 3:19amWeb
Show threadReal SyntacticMar 19
@richpuchalsky exactly right. I bailed on billionaire social media entirely after Twitter. But it also speaks to the siloing of my home uni, and to the increased workloads and the pervasive state of stunned moral injury within departments, that I never heard a word breathed.
Show threadRich Puchalsky ⩜⃝Mar 19

@mirijb2

I dislike Bluesky for many reasons, and Mastodon is my social media "home", but I keep an account there just because not only most academics but even more journalists went there.