Walter Benjamin said in ‘The Author as Producer’ that there is a difference between merely supplying a production apparatus and trying to change it.
I don’t have anything against academic work, a lot of really important thought goes on within academia, or at least used to when the pressure was off. Some of the most important thought in the twentieth century happened when people had the time and space to think without the immediacy of some newspaper deadline. So I don’t disparage it. But what has tended to happen in academia is that it has become what the kids on my estate call ‘up itself’. What matters to me is not only trying to think new things and say new things but also trying to reach new places. It seems valuable to try and break down the boundary between an academic and a more public realm (Judith Williamson).
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