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1. zak storer 🎡 (zacts@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Oct-2018 19:27:12 EDT zak storer 🎡

   @lrhodes I don't really know what to think of modern academic journals in general. Correct me if I'm wrong, please, but it seems to me that we've lost quite a human element to what publishing should be all about. I'm thinking of how Marx, Engels, and others, like Gottlob Frege and Russell, might have published. Publishing used to be for people, I mean real people, to read. If you were truly interested in a field of study, you might read it with coffee. Anyway, correct me if I'm off here.

   1. zak storer 🎡 (zacts@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Oct-2018 19:30:31 EDT zak storer 🎡

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      @lrhodes Note: I really honestly don't fully know if this is the case. I'm a sketched out guy who is just getting into the community college. I'm just now learning about all of this stuff, but this was my initial impression. Many publications merely end up in database searches, alienated from the culture that supposedly cultivated that thought. It kind of reminds me of concept albums. We used to have albums with which the songs were all related somehow, but now the songs are often alienated?