I am more interested in other questions, on the relationship between professional and amateur work, and on what we mean by terms like “radical.” On the first issue, I have wanted a law degree because those skills and that license would permit me to do work I cannot. But as we also know, professional work and professionalization itself narrows the view and the allowable scope of activity. Amateurs, necessarily the majority in any movement, can have perceptions and analyses professional training works to interdict. This is also where other disciplinary knowledge, including the hermeneutic skills literary scholars cultivate, can come to bear. And yet again, my own groups have not always had all the knowledge or political education we needed. Once an inmate told me he had escape plans. I had to decide what to do alone. It was difficult, given the possible implications of any action. And when a group comes together, and the work is urgent but new, and politics are not talked through, projects and coalitions can fragment, and causes can be lost.I am more interested in other questions, on the relationship between professional and amateur work, and on what we mean by terms like “radical.” On the first issue, I have wanted a law degree because those skills and that license would permit me to do work I cannot. But as we also know, professional work and professionalization itself narrows the view and the allowable scope of activity. Amateurs, necessarily the majority in any movement, can have perceptions and analyses professional training works to interdict. This is also where other disciplinary knowledge, including the hermeneutic skills literary scholars cultivate, can come to bear. And yet again, my own groups have not always had all the knowledge or political education we needed. Once an inmate told me he had escape plans. I had to decide what to do alone. It was difficult, given the possible implications of any action. And when a group comes together, and the work is urgent but new, and politics are not talked through, projects and coalitions can fragment, and causes can be lost.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 