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Or you could just look for the anti-intellectual movements seeking to marginalize academia in general, which your comment itself appears to stem from.

• philwelch 7y ago
  Criticizing academic institutions isn't inherently anti-intellectual, any more than criticizing government institutions makes you an anarchist.
  • Steko 7y ago
    He's not criticizing 'the institutions' so much as their ideas and modernism itself which, funny enough, is one of the 14 handy 'heuristics' for identifing nascent facism that Eco listed in 1995 [1]. It's a good list. At the risk of courting Godwin I'd suggest that 'concentration camps' would be a good 15th point but I guess it's covered more generally. [1] https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-features-of-eternal-fascism https://kottke.org/16/11/the-14-features-of-eternal-fascism
    • philwelch 7y ago
      The standard criticism of academia these days is that it has abandoned modernism for postmodernism, not that it's too modernist. Fascism itself was also very modernist in many ways, such as the obsession with industry and technology, the aspiration to innovate "beyond" liberalism and Marxism, and even the artistic and architectural styles it adopted.
• stcredzero 7y ago
  which your comment itself appears to stem from Another heuristic: Look out for people who would "argue" purely from resemblances. (And primarily by tarring.) [citation needed] I'm not out to marginalize academia in general. My wife is a former college professor, and a Stanford PhD. However, I would like to call out those in academia who would marginalize others in academia purely for their opinions. If anything, the threat to academic freedom is even more potent, when it comes from within.