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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>I have being trying to avoid engaging with these
exchanges<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>because <font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>I </span></font>only worked in the Academy
under very short term contracts some years ago<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> - b</span></font>ut desire being what it is/does... <br>
<br>
First, the way the debate was framed at the beginning of these exchanges is
interesting. Defining academic work<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>as<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>'conceptually rigorous<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font>(&) theoretically
engaged<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>’</span></font> already
responds to an 'Academy' that imagines, and<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font>has constructed itself in a particular way<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>: </span></font>as the intellectual inside
- where the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>real</span></i> intellectual
engagement is? But is it? <br>
<br>
In any case those of us who may not belong to 'it' perhaps should not allow our
only response to be that of experiencing ourselves as 'on the outside': unable
to theorize intelligently, or with any kind of validity because we are here and
not there <font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>- </span></font>on the
inside. Indeed this is the dangerous<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'>,</span></font> sometimes seductive and debilitating trap
that the inside/outside dichotomy lays before us. <br>
<br>
For me the important questions are: where's the next pay cheque going to come
from? And, how is it possible to do - let's just say - 'intellectual'
work, no matter where the day to day of our lives takes us. <br>
<br>
To the first the pay cheque can come from anywhere<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font>as other respondents have already suggested.
At present I work in Marketing and Communications. If I choose I
can take 12-18 months every 4 or 5 years to write full-time. I have had
two books published in this way - one with Harvester Wheatsheaf (1993), one with
Edinburgh University Press (1998). So it can be done<font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> </span></font>and the work - whatever its relation to the
Academy<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-style:italic;
mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </span></i>is<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> - </span></i>goes on. <br>
<br>
As to the issue of intellectual isolation, that surely is more difficult but
not impossible to overcome given today's technologies. <br>
<br>
What is most critical at the outset is to reject the position that the Academy
is the only location where - rigorous and theoretically engaged work or indeed
- just thoughtful intellectual work takes place? <br>
<br>
Of course this is also true of the outside - which is probably why there is
sometimes a certain difficult pleasure to be found in writing from/to the
in-between. <br>
<br>
Phil Barker<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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