And look how Democratic Late-Modernity is destroying the foundations of its own Creativity . Financial reports by the quarter , papers by the season , no time for reflection . Only crowds and mobs . No space for genius or excellence . So how to navigate or as I say find the Pagdandis and Patli Galis to retain your streak of delight, innovation and dangerous liaisons ! Peter Higgs: I wouldnt be productive enough for todays academic system . Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification is achievable now as academics are expected to keep churning out papers The emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, who says he has never sent an email, browsed the internet or even made a mobile phone call, published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work, which identified the mechanism by which subatomic material acquires mass, was published in 1964. He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in todays academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He said: Its difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964. Speaking to the Guardian en route to Stockholm to receive the 2013 Nobel prize for science, Higgs, 84, said he would almost certainly have been sacked had he not been nominated for the Nobel in 1980. Disciplined Minds is a book by physicist Jeff Schmidt,published in 2000. The book describes how professionals are made; the methods of professional and graduate schools that turn eager entering students into disciplined managerial and intellectual workers that correctly perceive and apply the employers doctrine and outlook. Schmidt uses the examples of law, medicine, and physics, and describes methods that students and professional workers can use to preserve their personalities and independent thought. Upon publication of Disciplined Minds, the American Institute of Physics fired author Jeff Schmidt. He had been on the editorial staff of Physics Today magazine for 19 years. Following advice given in the book itself, Schmidt and free-expression advocates mounted a campaign that brought public judgment to bear on Schmidt’s dismissal. Such justice is available to anyone not afraid to go public. The public campaign also led to a formal settlement whose terms are highly favorable to Schmidt. Schmidt credits and thanks the hundreds of physicists and others who spoke out publicly. “This is a victory for free expression,” says Schmidt, “and a demonstration of the power of organizing.” “A blistering critique of how knowledge workers have been subordinated in America. Finally, a book that tells it like it is.” -- Stanley Aronowitz, Author of The Jobless Future theguardian/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system disciplinedminds.tripod/
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