tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post7619042337653894349..comments2024-03-27T22:28:06.861-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Vasco-NubianAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-5362386172053702002015-09-22T14:41:01.208-06:002015-09-22T14:41:01.208-06:00Fair enough. Thank you, Andrew. I list myself at a...Fair enough. Thank you, Andrew. I list myself at academia.edu as "independent researcher", although admittedly my research is limited (this one would be one of the exceptions) and I'd rather think of myself as free thinker and even "research journalist" of sorts. Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-23941436161984105062015-09-22T11:17:41.992-06:002015-09-22T11:17:41.992-06:00I originally used the term scholar, but changed it...I originally used the term scholar, but changed it to "public intellectual" which I think perfectly describes people like you who are very knowledgeable about a field, and share their findings with the public, but often have no relationship with the Academy, in the tradition of the <a href="http://ronininstitute.org/" rel="nofollow">Ronin Institute</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual" rel="nofollow">in opposition to</a> the "Establishment Intellectual". The term "Independent Scholar" means roughly the same thing.<br /><br />One <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/who-is-a-public-intellectual/?_r=0" rel="nofollow">definition:</a><br /><br />"[P]ublic intellectuals were free-floating and unattached generalists speaking out on every topic that came their way. . . . They might be journalists or academics, but only because they had to eat. At the most fundamental level, ideas for them were not building blocks to a career."andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-79682198213117334062015-09-21T22:48:01.412-06:002015-09-21T22:48:01.412-06:00Thanks for the compliment but I'm not any &quo...Thanks for the compliment but I'm not any "scholar". I'm an amateur, serious if you wish but I have no relation with the Academy at all.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com