Intellectuals
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The Future of Intellectuals
According to Charles Vue, the very concept of the intellectual is public. If we accept the idea that intellectuals depend upon mass media channels because these channels distribute their ideas and give them a platform, then it would seem that changes in these channels would change the nature of intellectuals, right? And so like, what does it mean to be an intellectual podcasting versus an intellectual signing a petition 50 years ago versus a meal,. Zola writing a Jack Hughes in the 1890s.
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