Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force.

Evidence

“A lot of people want to protect their backside—and protect the institutional setting that they are still working for.” — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1134 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institutionalizing a critical field can strip it of political meaning; Institutionalization of Cultural Studies threatened to depoliticize it.; Institutionalization is necessary but codified orthodoxy is to be resisted. (+9 more)

Related

• Institutionalizing a critical field can strip it of political meaning (similarity 0.84)
• Liberal rights lose their critical function once the society they helped create is institutionalized. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The core problem is power that resists politicization #complicates (0.75)
• Political patrons can be used by radicals and then discarded. #complicates (0.40)
• Institutional honesty is often compromised to preserve the status quo. #exemplifies (0.35) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1134
• Committed text gains a brutal ascendancy that distorts structural revision. #complicates (0.30) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1078