Institutional scholasticism does not primarily exist to discover truth. It exists to reproduce itself. It operates through status hierarchies, reputational gating, and compliance rituals that slowly but efficiently select against intellectual risk. Advancement depends less on clarity, insight, or courage than on strategic alignment, calibrated language, and ritual citation. Academic publishing, the circulatory system of […]
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Corruptible Scholasticism
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- Post date Jan 26, 2026
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- Tags academic capitalism, academic gatekeeping, academic power structures, academic publishing crisis, algorithmic governance, bureaucratic hierarchy, censorship by incentive, citation politics, communication systems, corporate academia, credentialism, critical theory, cultural power, cultural reproduction, cybernetic critique, education systems critique, elite reproduction, epistemic closure, institutional corruption, institutional decay, institutional failure, intellectual conformity, intellectual freedom, knowledge monopolies, knowledge production, political economy of knowledge, power and knowledge, prestige economy, reputational control, scholarly independence, scholastic hierarchy, status systems, systemic capture, systemic corruption, systems analysis, thought suppression
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