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Here are some excerpts from my book:
From chapter 18, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life:
Among other things, I'm arguing that (i) presentation of self - creating, maintaining, or modifying one's hairstyle, as it were - is a way of thinking, but (ii) given a choice between maintaining one's hairstyle and thinking about it, my profession as a whole will choose hairstyle over thought. And the reader/editor/colleague will crack down on my thought, too, if it threatens his hairstyle (at least, he'll crack down collectively, institutionally, on behalf of the collective/institutional hairstyle, even if he'd rather not). In effect, to freeze one's hairstyle is to freeze a part of one's brain.
[By "my profession" I mean academia as well as journalism, even though I've never had a job in academia.]
Later in the same chapter:
( the drive towards academic diversity tends to run aground )
From chapter 18, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life:
Among other things, I'm arguing that (i) presentation of self - creating, maintaining, or modifying one's hairstyle, as it were - is a way of thinking, but (ii) given a choice between maintaining one's hairstyle and thinking about it, my profession as a whole will choose hairstyle over thought. And the reader/editor/colleague will crack down on my thought, too, if it threatens his hairstyle (at least, he'll crack down collectively, institutionally, on behalf of the collective/institutional hairstyle, even if he'd rather not). In effect, to freeze one's hairstyle is to freeze a part of one's brain.
[By "my profession" I mean academia as well as journalism, even though I've never had a job in academia.]
Later in the same chapter:
( the drive towards academic diversity tends to run aground )
