tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955304210599373230.post7497702352474996042..comments2024-03-28T17:50:40.478+00:00Comments on Fuse open science blog: Academic rivalryFusehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167289608282259405noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955304210599373230.post-49404091510830574302012-06-07T10:33:22.874+01:002012-06-07T10:33:22.874+01:00I must say, I was extremely flattered when I disco...I must say, I was extremely flattered when I discovered I had gained my first 'public enemy'. We'll see whether it turns out to be a useful spur in terms of my research.Peter Tennanthttp://www.about.me/petertennantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955304210599373230.post-66621329449469282122012-06-07T10:20:00.187+01:002012-06-07T10:20:00.187+01:00I'm still working on that thick skin.I'm still working on that thick skin.Peter Tennanthttp://www.about.me/petertennantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955304210599373230.post-52955111660793283232012-06-06T15:06:13.877+01:002012-06-06T15:06:13.877+01:00Puts me in mind of this lecture at Goldsmiths sett...Puts me in mind of this lecture at Goldsmiths setting out the products of intellectual enmity - 'My Best Fiend. On the Productivity of Intellectual Enmities'<br />http://www.gold.ac.uk/csisp/events/mybestfiend/<br /><br />"Enemies are productive. They spark interest, they draw energy, people care about them and they care about us. Why else would people spend time denouncing this badly formulated concept of an esteemed colleague, decrying the neighbouring discipline that keeps misunderstanding the world, or keep on writing bad tempered footnotes about this mistaken theory – and thereby become complicit in this very unproductivity? Why do scholars choose this enemy and not another?<br /><br />Enemies also often involuntarily direct ones thinking, researching and theorising. If an enemy posits a, people feel compelled to posit b. If she writes approvingly of c, we need to denounce it. An enemy can have more power over people’s thinking than they would probably like to have it. It is as if people are guided in their thinking not only from their research object, but by an unknown field of do’s and don’t’s, accumulated since the time of their studies, of where to go and look and where not to look."Mira Vogelhttp://goldsmithsleu.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3955304210599373230.post-14385518419310802882012-05-23T08:29:50.119+01:002012-05-23T08:29:50.119+01:00Thick skin required but never leave the science be...Thick skin required but never leave the science behind.sittonomyhttp://www.sedentarybehaviourclassication.netnoreply@blogger.com