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This has emerged as the main question folks have about the idea behind pulp: “Why would I put anything I write up where all those lurkers can see it too?”
I don’t have a pat answer. I think that thinking about thinking in an open-source sort of way does entail some risk of a form of idea piracy. That’s not without basis, given the fact that a great deal of work in the design/research intersection has been ‘citation-free,’ largely, I think, due the perception among all kinds of practitioners that they need to be able to claim uniqueness in order to offer value, and that uniqueness
pulp: a writer’s salon at the intersection of design, social science, and business.
In graduate school I was part of a ‘workshop’ that had been started by one of my advisors (Wendy Griswold, now at Northwestern University) on the ‘Sociology of Culture.’ There wasn’t a curriculum. Wendy didn’t lecture. There were no grades. It went across academic quarters, year over year (I was part of it for four of them), with an evolving composition of graduate students and faculty members from across the university.
We presented work in progress. We shared drafts of papers and chapters. We critiqued what we read and we argued (productively) about what we were working
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