Funder priorities shape what research institutions can and cannot pursue
Evidence
In view of the fact that the American Jewish Committee had shelved the anti-Semitism project, as it only had resources for immediate observations and for campaigning, Horkheimer had asked Adorno to draft a research project on the anti-Jewish policies of Nazism and their effects at home and abroad. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 296
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how institutional funding circuits produce or foreclose knowledge, echoing the Frankfurt School’s later self-censorship of Marxist vocabulary for American sponsors. — connects to: Research funding subordinates truth to the goal of performativity — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 342; Funding and institutional context channel what attention science can discover — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 137; Philanthropic funders controlled the political composition of academic advisory committees — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 756 (+10 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Research funding subordinates truth to the goal of performativity — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 342; Funding and institutional context channel what attention science can discover — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 137; Philanthropic funders controlled the political composition of academic advisory committees — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 756 (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Funding and institutional context channel what attention science can discover
#expands(0.92) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 137 - Concentrating research funding can make science more propaganda-proof
#complicates(0.75) — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, 384