What's the point of words? - by Sam Kriss
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There is no such thing as philosophy
From 1994 to 1998, a journal called Philosophy and Literature held a bad writing contest. Philosophy and Literature is a kind of harumphing Scrutonian publication for people who think the academy’s lost the plot but still can’t bring themselves to disengage and do something more interesting with their lives. It does not tend to publish anything particularly groundbreaking or even very interesting, and it’s not really read by anyone at all. The average paper in Philosophy and Literature receives 0.1 citations. As far as I can tell, the only influential writing they’ve ever published was…
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