Mirror, mirror on the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall I’m going to try and keep this blogpost relatively short (for me), because as you’ll see if you read on, it’s navel-gazing self-indulgence of the worst order. So please feel free to save yourself some time, stop here, and enjoy this youtube clip of the Marx Brothers doing the mirror scene in Duck Soup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo As part of the day that Hannah Morgan and I put on for the #justiceforLB #107days campaign ( http://107daysofaction.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/day-49-an-academic-point-107days/ ), one of the things I said was that academics need to take a long, hard look in the mirror. It’s the kind of thing I say – sounds good doesn’t it, appropriately breast-beating (so you’ll think I’m a nice guy, on the side of good, and you can reassure me that of course the work I’m doing is worthwhile) yet sufficiently vague to not really hold me to anything. I’m good at saying (or more often writing) things like that – I can excoriate along with...