All is well

While waiting for a new longer post to be out in the next few days, here is a recommendation: 'Radical Academia: Beyond the Audit Culture Treadmill' by Rowan Cahill and Terry Irving of the University of Wollongong.

It's exactly about what the title says. Any one who is even remotely invested in the current intellectually and morally bankrupt state of academia should read it; anyone who, like me, has committed the grave mistake of entering such bankrupt dominion full of hopes soon to be squashed should read it. It has worldwide applicability and it would have been a sobering read for me, if I wasn't the very subject the article talks about.

Wonderful.

Edit: also, a little bit of subjective data in support of alternative ways of knowledge dissemination. This very blog, according to numbers, has gotten me about 8 times more exposure than all my academic papers and conference proceedings combined. Even assuming automated crawls and such, still nothing to  scoff at for the very, very junior academic.