@timb-m.bsky.social's new book Critical Games: On Play and Seriousness in Academia, #Literature and Life reflects on how literature, #culture, #universities and society can be both playful and profound

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"You speak of criticism in your last letter to me, telling me that it will soon disappear. Ithink, on the contrary, that it is, at most only dawning…. When will they (critics) be artists, only artists, but really artists?" Flaubert to George Sand, also quoted in Macy

Yes. Too true. There is a longer history to this, too. Think of the double meaning of academic: weighty,serious but also “just academic”, unimportant. Or trivial - that originally referred to the trivium, the foundations of the medieval curriculum.

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Thank you, Laura. I’d love to hear any thoughts if you are able to have a look at it!