Uromania

[Dave Monroe]

In the meantime, I've been handing out info-mation, maybe even a few bona fide
Clues, but no one'll ever exploit 'em in quite the way I would, were I ever to
have the chance, and, in the meantime, things do come back, so (and are Certain
Someones seriously concerned others here might rip off their precious insights?
Don't even bother to roll up yr windows ...) ....   A critical potlatch? Me, I
think of it as giving gifts in that Levinasian sense.  But there are differences
between "difficult" and "abrasive" and "adolescent" and "insulting" and so forth.
Even in the worst moments of academic "debate" that I've witnessed (or maybe even
have been involved in), much behavior here would not be tolerated.  I've seen
people flee such online discussions because they're afraid it might get back
'round to th' Department ...

Paul Mackin wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> > ... are there academics proper (and/or improper, even?  Far more likely ...)
> > "here," at least in any ongoing, active capacity?  Hard to tell.  I can't
> > imagine anyone, tenured, seeking tenure, or one day hoping to be seeking
> > tenure, much less interested in responsible scholarship or whatever,
> > engaging in the not-all-too-elegant nastiness by which we seem to pass much
> > of the time here.
>
> You mean the selection committee might stoop to combing through the
> archives to predict who may be particularly abrasive in faculty meetings
> and such. However aren't the most dazzling prospects generally assumed to
> be somewhat difficult in the 'personality' department? I think the more
> likely hesitancy would be of publicizing your ideas for fear someone else
> might proceed to exploit them before you got around to doing so.
>
>                         P.