At the Chronicle, Eric Banks on the life and afterlife of Walter Benjamin. A great piece to read (Lindsay Waters is an intellectual hero!) - a reminder of how contingent the survival and dissemination of someone's work may be.
Have been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be an academic insider/gatekeeper (this has been much on my mind over the past week - also reported here). And from another standpoint, the lack of clear correlation between brilliance and success in a fairly remorseless pipeline....
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Lindsay is such an oddly tangential figure in my life: father-in-law's devoted editor and parent of one of my campers when I ran a summer camp, and I didn't realize the overlap till somewhat later!
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