The Importance of the University

The university is a difficult place from which to be writing the kinds of things and stories that I do. But at the same time, it's precisely the place that's sustained and given life to these other ways of thinking. The University of Sydney always has had a function where if you are able to go and find something that it does not know and bring it into the middle of it, you're rewarded for it. And so I guess that's in some ways how the paradigm of modernity works to be able to take things and be able to bring something in. That's what's considered original work. It both punishes you for doing something that's completely outside its rules, but then