It will never not be funny to me how academics single approach to all problems is to write about it, and that inability to act forecloses our ability to even imagine anything but the present
We need to do something about journals leveraging their position as information gatekeepers for profit
Ah but what are journals
We need a new system of classifying the types of journals
We need a type of organization for certifying those classifications
Perhaps many such organizations, comprising peers in that field
Surely having an authoritative process for classifying the worthiness of work will save us from our exploitation by an authoritative process for classifying the worthiness of work
Don Norman said something interesting on a talk last week I saw: It's important to go in and out of academia, to learn how to act and to think in different ways. I've been thinking about that a lot recently.
@richlitt
I think it would be dope to use public funding to Do Stuff in the public interest like build an alternative to corporate control of information rather than funding it, release medical and technological discoveries into the public domain instead of patenting them, welcome those outside the academy in as collaborators instead of objects of study, rededicate ourselves to making sure our accrued intellectual capital is used to educate everyone, everywhere, instead of being complicit in the continuing neoliberalization of universities, and yes, learn to organize and communicate in different patterns than the stock standard of academia.
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