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Essay
Jun 4, 2026
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6 min read
We had already spent decades building a world organised around writing more and more, faster and faster, until abundance itself began to change what writing was worth.
May 29, 2026
12 min read
It is the experience of sensing that we know things in a light shaped by the structural conditions of our chronically online lives.
Commentary
May 21, 2026
5 min read
We both love the disciplines we have devoted ourselves to. We both tell stories about their decline, each of us locating the causes in ways that no doubt contain blind spots of their own.
Review
4 min read
The gown becomes almost tragicomic in this context. Rather than interrogating why symbolic hierarchy matters so much in academia, the solution becomes extending access to its ceremonial symbols.
Fiction
Apr 23, 2026
22 min read
"They said you have committed a crime against knowledge, just like when the Library of Alexandria was bur- ."
Apr 16, 2026
9 min read
Far from exposing an intellectual life that merely dresses, speaks, and performs itself through pretension and exclusivity, the text has, in many ways, come to romanticise it.
Apr 9, 2026
11 min read
We need to stop treating publics as passive consumers of science
The Digest
Mar 26, 2026
8 min read
While the gentleman and the scholar never truly aligned with one another, it would be a mistake to conclude that this encounter between the two had no lasting effects.
Mar 19, 2026
10 min read
This observation should not be misunderstood as an argument against government support for academic research.
Mar 12, 2026
Such material would have been unusual for these publications, given that only five women in the entire country would have the training and expertise to understand it at the time it was published.
Mar 5, 2026
13 min read
"I'm not at all afraid of the term 'ivory tower'".
Feb 26, 2026
The concern is not about the value of applied knowledge, which is self-evident. The risk lies in treating contributions to “how” knowledge as interchangeable with contributions to “what” knowledge.
