Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic erudition, to connect their thinking with earlier traditions of social and technological criticism. They desperately need to believe that their every thought is unprecedented. Sometimes it seems as if intellectual life doesn’t really thrill them at all. They never stoop to the lowly task of producing expansive and expository essays, where they could develop their ideas at length, by means of argument and learning, and fully engage with their critics. Instead they blog, and tweet, and consult, and give conference talks—modes of discourse that are mostly impervious to serious critique.
The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic
By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)

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    I don’t buy this for a second. One of the biggest “internet intellectuals”—indeed, perhaps the man who single-handedly...
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    That’s great, Chris,...I think she should do both — submit
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    First, I think that the original New Republic article is too harsh and indeed narrow minded. But do you know “who wants...
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    Very alliterative. I like alliteration. Later we can get a beer and talk about academia, inertia, and getting things...

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