The Importance of Academic Publishing

I always wanted to be an academic, but I wanted to be the kind of academic that friends and my parents were sitting in a book line room with your feet on the table. And somehow not being judged by how many books you've written or what conference papers you've given. In another sense, I think I'm completely and utterly complicit with the new market model of the university. The business that market runs, the fuel, and the engine is research, and the physical incarnation of research is the book. So the book is that the currency, so I've become like a broker. You know, I feel sometimes that I'm just like a banker, you know, I've got,