decasia: critique of academic culture

This is the scholarly lion at columbia university. It cannot roar. It can’t charge. It can’t even move. It is only a statue. One wonders, frankly, what kind of comment on scholarship is implicit in this puzzling object, with its ruffled main, its gnarled lips, its green face the color of sea-beaten algae or refrigerated [...]

I was reading a post by Stanley Katz on the impending closure of the University of Florida’s philosophy department and saw that he’d written another article called “The Pathbreaking, Fractionalized, Uncertain World of Knowledge.” This article begins by quoting A.N. Whitehead: “The task of the university is the creation of the future, so far as [...]