why is 90% of contemporary academic writing fluff and filler "literally who cares" bullshitting?
Why can't you retards be arsed to use proper capitalization?
>>24923656The Bolsheviks have completed their hundred year march through the institutions that they began in 1920s soviet union
Most of acedemic writing from the humanities for the 50 years is just accusing great figures of the past of being gay.
>>24923662same reason you don't wear a suit to go hang out at your friends
>>24923725No.
>>24923656Because publish or perish. Because cite big guy or get snubbed. Every paper must have 0.5-2 pages of waffling citing every geriatric faggot at harvard, and including important (((keywords))) so the slop is google-friendly. Journal editors are consultant boomer retards and they will not accept your paper without an adequate dose of slop.
>>24923735ikr. every stupid article i read now i'm just thinking to myself "so when does this get good?" and it never does and lost minutes of my precious time reading the academic version of "[insert industry] hates this! 10 things they don't want you to know". fuck the stupid academy. also get the women out please.
>>24923662i don't respect this board or its users enough to bother
>>24923735How do we stop this grift?
We live and breathe purple prose here froggot
>>24923662>arsedBritbong detected
>>24923745you're a low IQ cretin
>>24923656>modern academiaYou can literally find better on AO3.
>>24923829i can smell the foid from here
>>24923830is esoteric kantianism kant fanfiction?
>>24923656Because it's more expedient. To "make it" in academia you have to get cited. The safest way to do that is re-iterating the current mainstream views in non-trivial ways, which usually translates to people producing unoriginal research that confirms some detail everyone already predicted. And because this is sometimes costly, you have to have a bunch of colleagues collaborate so that you're not hogging the equipment or other resources for your own credentials only.The publishing landscape shifted a lot in the last 100 years from what I understand. For example case studies used to be common, but now they're almost extinct. This happened partially due to pressure to generalize, get cited and not stand out, but also because we've had quite a few issues with peer review. Turns out it's only slightly better than chance in uncovering mistakes and gaps in research...
>>24923858burn it all down i say
>>24923841Yes. No.
>>24923839What does it smell like? Use details.
>>24923656>>24923735This is it. Bad incentive structures. Enshittification of everything, tiktok stardom and academia is similar because it’s all about clicks. So you lie and misrepresent, even just slightly, to get the shocking conclusions that bring attention. Now you upped your citation metrics (where outside mentions including social media are increasingly as important). This is required not optional for your career. Poisonous behavior like more established people signing their names on papers they never even looked at is normalized. Why? Again, the metrics. As is them stealing your work outright if you accidentally have a real discovery. And you take it because protesting is risking your career and being blackballed by people above you. The “peer review” might in many cases just not exist. It’s all a back slapping session, unless you have some unpersoned opinions then they will trash it for “mistakes” that are routinely accepted otherwise. People who actually want to do what science is supposed to do by double checking all data and studies in papers are EXCORIATED for attempting this. You’re “attacking” other people’s work and livelihood. What if you discover their routine fudging of data or inability to use math? Isn’t that the point of the process you ask in your naivety. But fuck no it’s not. It’s go along to get along, or else.There are a handful of scandals regardless, ideally targeted toward places with even lower standards like India and China that just mass churn out absolute garbage. AI fakery is skyrocketing everywhere but again no real effort to end the bullshit and the incentives is made. The occasional huge scandal that actively kills people (medical research) leads some jurnos to look at how this works and ask “someone should do something” every now and then.
>>24923858this. you circle jerk around an ideological guru to go up the midwit ladder.
>>24924074>The occasional huge scandal that actively kills people (medical research)that's the worse part. bullshit being passed of as "science" actually gets people killed.
ok but who here is really in academia tho?
>>24923858Academia is basically for people who can't operate independently.I get it. You want to make a modest salary for repeating what your superiors say, but even the military has some people capable of independent thought...
>>24924093i wish we could go back to how uni was back in Kant's day.
>>249240930iq take. its literally in the job requirements that you have made a new contribution to your field.
>>24924110What even is the point of life if you'll never be Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg?
>>24924116it's*
>>24923735I don't understand mentality behind publish or perish. Shouldn't goal be quality over quantity?
>>24924123tis a burger thing. you wouldn't get it.
>>24924126Please help me comprehend.
>>24924120It's*. cant even get the correction right? yeah ur def not cut out for academia
>>24924116>its literally in the job requirements that you have made a new contribution to your fieldYeah, but the "fields" themselves are bullshit. A sociology master's on post-maoist gothic-materialist decolonial queer theory and a multidisciplinary PhD on how kombucha production isn't sufficiently considerate of black physiology shouldn't be the kind of stuff that gets you a job in retail, much less at a university.
>>24924129Since fewer get tenured nowadays, especially in the humanities, due to the overwhelming amount of midwits getting degrees in it, you justify your indentured servitude by producing slop. The more slop you produce, the more updoots you get on your cv. The more slop you produce, the more updoot opportunities you have from being cited in your given circlejerk. In short, you'll never go viral if you don't produce updoot bait slop as frequently as possible.
>>24924167"stupid thing i made up sounds stupid"
>>24924172they just be making shit up and ad hoc justifying it don't they?
>>24924177"Me, not having breakfast? Do you realize how stupid that sounds?"
>>24924172this is incredibly depressing
>>24923656Same reason 90% of the threads on the 'log are trash
>>24925039what's the reason then?
>>24924116>new contributionSo why does everyone spout the same party line with very little variation?
>>24926109i mean, just not true.last few days ive been studying for an anthropology of violence class, and like 40% of it is about 9/11 and palestinian terrorism.im woke asf and went into it thinking the lens of liberation would be in every readingit wasnt, every other reading i feel islamophobia shining off the pageif you actually familiarized yourself with academic literature you would know the whole thing is that you respond to people and argue why you disagree. also image related because rightwingers are retards who contribute nothing to any field. most papers have nothing to do with politics like i think you imagine
>>24926144Where does academia get its funding? Who decides what to fund?Follow the money and you will understand why academia caters leftist and why predominately liberals thrive there.
>>24926144Academics will pen the most in depth explorations of power-structures and control-mechanism and be like 'not us tho, not this time'
>>24926161Also they were massively infiltrated by commies during the Cold War because McCarthy should have been allowed to go scorched earth.
>>24926298the us imported so many nzs in operation paperclip but academia didnt go nz. almost like truth is left leaning
>>24926329>the thing I agree with tends to be trueWowsies.
>>24926329>t. doesn't know about the breakaway civilization and how american academics are purposely trained wrong as a joke
>>24926144> i feel islamophobia shining off the page>rightwingers are retards who contribute nothing to any field. schrödinger's academia
>>24923662^assed
>>24926336this anon knows. just a lil kek.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41402122sorry class, i'm gonna have to turn my swag on so he doesn't forget that i brought this up*also doodles your face on the board*
>>24924074can I ask anon , do you have an example of a lot of this stuff , I am not trying to disprove you , I just like to comtemplate on stuff like this for fun.
>>24926447what does he know?
>>24926329I mean if the truth is inherently left leaning does this imply that the actual problem is that left leaning people are not actually being left leaning and this is impirical evidence of it , as a lot of people here talk about some kind of flaw in academia.if you disagree with this please remenber to give a reason as to why in civilised speach , otherwise it will not be a left leaning action.
