Academic institutionalization can eliminate productive theoretical tension

Evidence

But one thing that bothers me about the rhetoric of the organic intellectual is the way the problem of theory/practice/politics can get posed. At one moment, you said that if you don’t feel the tensions in your work, it’s because theory has let you off the hook. But sometimes it’s not that theory lets you off the hook, it’s that the academy or the forms of academic institutionalization can drive tension out of people’s work, can absolutely kill the angels in a sense. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 277

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s own context as a lifelong learner — institutionalization dulls the ‘angels’ that keep work alive.

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• Academic institutionalization can drain the political tension from intellectual work, not theory alone. (similarity 0.88)
• Keeping the organic-intellectual ideal in view changes the character of scholarly work (similarity 0.83)
• Teaching is itself a form of intellectual production (similarity 0.80)
• Interdisciplinarity’s subversive force becomes slack pluralism once institutionalized (similarity 0.80)
• Intellectual practice is reproduced through teaching, not only through writing (similarity 0.78)