Institutional secrecy by directors undermines claims of scholarly collective community.
Evidence
It was partly caused and certainly aggravated by the patriarchal and confidential way in which the directors of the Institute kept its resources at their own disposal. This made a mockery of the claim that the Institute represented a united community of Critical Theorists of society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 283
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School material on the Horkheimer-Adorno control of Institute funds and the suppression of Fromm’s and the labor study’s publication. — connects to: Industry-stacked committees produced deliberately obfuscatory scientific reports; Secrecy about finances demoralized the Institute’s staff — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Prosecutorial secrecy blocks both research and accountability for discretion — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 552 (+3 more)
- SEED: Angle: the administrative machinery behind a famous school of thought — how funding control shaped which Critical Theory texts got written.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Industry-stacked committees produced deliberately obfuscatory scientific reports; Secrecy about finances demoralized the Institute’s staff — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 272; Prosecutorial secrecy blocks both research and accountability for discretion — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 552 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- A secret-government claim makes conspiracy theories unfalsifiable to their audiences
#complicates(0.74) — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 443 - Outsiders misconstrue tightly organized social groups as secret conspiracies.
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