By the time you understand how academia actually works, you are already trapped inside it. That is the trick. Entry is sold as freedom of thought, critique, and discovery. What you encounter instead is a dense lattice of reputation management, contractual silence, risk avoidance, and procedural obedience. Say the wrong thing, name the wrong problem, […]
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Institutional Event Horizon
- Post author By G
- Post date Jan 30, 2026
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- Tags academic bureaucracy, academic culture, academic publishing crisis, bureaucratic gravity, complex systems, complexity theory, critical systems theory, education system critique, entropy and institutions, epistemic closure, Epistemology, event horizon metaphor, governance-failure, innovation suppression, institutional collapse, institutional critique, institutional inertia, knowledge ecology, knowledge systems, managerialism, organizational entropy, organizational inertia, organizational pathology, planetary risk, power and hierarchy, structural analysis, structural stagnation, system dynamics, systemic risk, systems failure
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