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se we accuse minor deconstructionists of engaging in with abandon in the 1980s and the 1990s too much self referentiality and too little of that necessary ingredient of any responsible philosophy self criticism that was me being diplomatic and polite let me reformulate the thought in a more direct way some of the stuff out there to say it with wolfgang pauli is not even wrong too often i see para academic work boiling down to philosophically uninteresting and sterile lucubrations on the author s favourite topic book or musical genre and sometimes it is really just worthless bullshit i know that nowadays the hip thing to think is that academic university based philosophy is necessarily musty boring and inconsequential but even if true this doesn t mean that we should give up on the institution of the university yes often academic philosophical work is worthless bullshit too but to think that the solution to all philosophical internal ills is to re cast it all into a para academic shape is mistaken there is only good philosophy and bad philosophy and our main if not unique interest and intellectual responsibility should be discriminating between the two whatever their provenance so i want to claim that 1 if we want to reform academic philosophy we cannot just abandon ship the institution of the university in its ideal form more on this later is a damn fine ship it s one of the most important institutions humans have created and if today it is in a late capitalist shambles we should feel the moral obligation to re found it according to our best ideals as radical an overhaul as necessary rather than simply sneer at it as doomed to unredeemable complicity with the economic machine 2 even more contentiously i believe that some form of institutional regulation mostly in the form of training requisites is necessary for good philosophy to be possible in the context of the debate between my speculations friends and the continent editors a lot of emphasis has been put on the academia university distinction put forward by michael privileging the first as an ideal space of knowledge communication while denouncing the latter as an overly bureaucratized profit seeking institution i want to endorse this distinction if with a few caveats it is not enough to call academia a space for knowledge exchange i think that it is important to distinguish between the communication of knowledge and the creation of knowledge when the other editors discuss the value of open access publications and of the myriad of ways in which everyone can today virtually attend classes delivered by the best teachers in their field i could not agree more with their emphasis on the necessity of promoting these forms of dissemination of knowledge as widely and as radically as possible i ve always been a committed supporter of open access publications and i believe that the days of paywalled academic journals and of expensive academic books are numbered or should be forcefully made so by us both springer and elsevier have recently introduced an open access option for contributors to their journals they just ask the author for 2000 euros dollars upfront to have his or her article go open access what is this if not the shameful shamelessly exploitative foolish grasping at straws of corporations terrified by the sudden realization that their source of profit is doomed to disappear both the dissemination of new knowledge and university education should be free i e fully subsidised by tax payers money fullstop but so far we ve only touched the issue of the communication exchange dissemination of knowledge not that of its creation if no good philosophy is created it doesn t really matter how widely it gets circulated or how freely one can access to it in fact when bad philosophy goes viral it s only for the worst there sometimes seems to be the tacit assumption that a greater circulation of ideas will necessarily produce more quality perhaps this is my very own temperamental attitude speaking but i m someone who against this assumption fully subscribes to deleuze s famous considerations on philosophical conversations philosophy doesn t find any final refuge in communication which only works under the sway of opinions in order to create consensus and not concepts the idea of a western democratic conversation between friends has never produced a single concept every philosopher runs away when he or she hears someone say let s discuss this discussions are fine for roundtable talks but philosophy throws its numbered dice on another table the best one can say about discussions is that they take things no farther since the participants never talk about the same thing of what concern is it to philosophy that someone has such a view and thinks this or that if the problems at stake are not stated and when they are stated it is no longer a matter of discussing but rather one of creating concepts for the undiscussible problem posed communication always comes too early or too late and when it comes to creating conversation is always superfluous what is philosophy 6 28 i m no deleuzian but deleuze is actually an excellent example to introduce my general point someone who has undoubtedly been one of the most original daring creative and speculative philosophers of the xxth century and someone who can hardly be accused of academic conservativism but his most speculative moments were always supported by his frighteningly deep knowledge of the history of philosophy and history of science the product of the most classical french university training married to an exceptional mind and the same of course goes for all of his great french contemporaries to think that we should simply remove all academic constraints and gatekeeping to sit back and witness a thousand speculative flowers bloom in occasional workshops or collectives or the blogosphere is to be at least dangerously optimistic i ve read somewhere an argument to the effect that the lack of academic patronage in people like leibniz hume diderot and other philosophical protagonists of the pre kantian philosophical scene somehow proves that even today we don t need academic affiliation to create original thought this argument i m afraid is at best historically naïve sure these philosophers were not professors but they were pretty much invariably rich white males living in a pre capitalist society and with enough personal wealth to allow them to securely entertain the leisurely activity of philosophizing when s the last time you ve seen a rich well educated diplomat writing metaphysical treatises while on business trips times have changed and to look back at the good ol times when the everyman was a philosopher will not help academia in its idealized but not utopic institutional form that is organized in universities i m referring to here should precisely be an environment protected from economic sexual and racial inequalities and accessible only on the base of intellectual merit once again we cannot give up on this ideal just because its current shape is tragically less than ideal we need universities and that fact that nowadays philosophy is bound to decadently bureaucratized institutional conditions should only encourage us to renew it and create better universities a task which is arguably inextricably bound with a larger scale renewal of our society and its economic organization to corroborate this point look at the phenomenon of philosophical counselling which often explicitly endorsing an hadottian call to bring philosophy out of the university and back to bear directly on people s lives really boils down to a commodification of philosophical self help paid by the hour i endorse all of my friends reflections on the necessity of opening the gates of academia when it comes to democratizing its output of knowledge but i think that some gatekeeping is necessary when the goal is to maximise the quality of production of new knowledge paul boshears recently wrote that when it is impossible for any one person to distinguish signal from noise reliable signal markers are necessary this promise is implicit in the vetting process that underwrites accreditation indeed and my point is if nowadays the accreditation process has been reduced to more of a monetary exchange between prestigious institutions and debt ridden students converting monetary capital into symbolic capital as bordieu would have it than to a question of objective merit it doesn t follow that we should throw the baby of the vetting process out with the bathwater of a corrupt mcdonaldized university system so here s my most conservative line no good philosophy gets created without very good training methodological and historical a training that takes time effort and humility and crucially training that needs to be delivered in an appropriate institutional setting to be completely honest i m not even so positive as i used to be towards the internet based ways through which anyone can now rise to sudden philosophical fame to re employ the image used by paul above the signal to noise ratio gets so unbearably high that it becomes humanly impossible to tell the wheat from the chaff and in the worst cases theorizing of low quality but high intellectual marketability gets more attention than it deserves a phenomenon someone would call an online orgy of stupidity it seems to me too high a price to pay to break out of the admittedly slow and archaic academic journal avenue of publication and these considerations partially explain why i retreated from the blogosphere in the meantime open access journals with a quicker turnaround and wider distribution like speculations and continent are a better compromise between quality control and wide dissemination but even this is no ideal solution i think that an interesting route would be open access peer review for a period of time a given paper gets posted on an internet platform where a large number of perhaps anonymous perhaps not reviewers from a pool of selected editors not just anyone can comment according to a pre defined format which emphasises constructive comments strictly relevant to the argument with the clear aim of delivering at the end of the review process a publishable and final piece of writing i don t believe in continuously updatable pieces of writing that s a late deconstructionist 1990s hypertext cyberculture ideal which is just impractical and ultimately useless so what should we do i will endorse para academia where that means the effort to create new kinds of universities organized according to different and better guidelines but where intellectual freedom doesn t get confused with a theorizing free for all i ve seen several references to the public school in new york as an excellent example of a para academic institution to follow as interesting as it looks i don t know enough about it to pass an informed judgment but i would like to note that experiments of this sort are nothing too new in 2013 will recur the 30 th year celebrations for the founding in 1983 of the collège international de philosophie an institution founded in paris by the likes of derrida lecourt faye and châtelet with the intention of reforming what was perceived to be an inadequate approach to philosophy in the french universities and organized around the principle of intersection of systematically mixing philosophy with the arts sciences and law however i m concerned when talk of para academia proudly coats itself with an antagonistic tone which seems to betray more a spirit of teenage rebellion against the dads of the university than a militant desire to draw a concrete strategy to reform an institution we all should care about if all of today s young and promising intellectuals self exile themselves in short lived and nebulously structured para academic outfits tomorrow s university will remain unchanged ultimately i think that a very good case can be made that there is simply too much out there too many philosophers too many publications too many conferences here s where i would enforce an even stricter gatekeeping the academic market is oversaturated because for profit s sake universities have been giving away for the last several decades ph ds to people that frankly didn t deserve them having said this i of course sympathize with the shameful predicament into which underpaid adjuncts are forced into and with that of many friends i know with fresh ph ds and no university employment and note that i am not predicating from a safe place i don t even have a ph d yet and when i will i ll be adrift in the academic market like everyone else indeed given that this is delicate ground and people s egos are easily bruised let me put myself on the line lest i be accused of thinking too highly of myself in my ideal academic world very few would be accepted into phd programs and only after a thorough admission test like it exists in some european countries in my ideal academic world someone like me should not have been accepted for a phd in the first place for much higher standards of acquaintance with the philosophical tradition and of production of original thought should be required this sort of gatekeeping would not mean deficit of intellectual freedom those qualified enough to enter academia should be left total freedom to follow their own interest much of the dynamics which we are well accustomed to and we are fond of denouncing academic factions fashions clientelism narrow mindedness and conservativism are fuelled by legions of lesser philosophers needing to buttress their intellectual paucity with alternative ways of self defense this pruned academia would feed back knowledge into society exclusively through open access publishing free internet delivered lecture courses and special programs aimed to inform and engage the public is this a kantian utopia of academic freedom perhaps but nothing we don t already have the resources today to bring into reality i will repeat this i take the deliverance of free education to be a core duty of any society on par with free healthcare but would you want to be cured by a self taught doctor let me wrap this up by referring directly to the case of the now ubiquitous term speculation or speculative often used in these days to indicate a philosophizing method alternative or at least parallel to the university based one make no mistake i am a proud editor of speculations and paul michael thomas and rob can i think testify to my thorough and earnest commitment to the journal and my positive if not ambitious attitude towards its present and future developments i am also someone who everything considered is happy to save the term speculative realism from the dustbin of modish philosophical trademarks i think it s a good term that can still be salvaged and re engineered to index an ambitious and genuinely progressive philosophical realist project and there s a forthcoming issue of speculations 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