tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post4250653957219196137..comments2023-10-30T12:26:15.822+01:00Comments on Research as a Second Language: Against PatchwritingThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-12469575483335831872014-11-12T18:40:10.297+01:002014-11-12T18:40:10.297+01:00Thomas, how vivid is the boundary that separates s...Thomas, how vivid is the boundary that separates self-plagiarism and auto-patcherism from acceptable behavior? As you address this in the coming posts, I'd like you to show the distinction -- if it exists -- between what one should refrain from doing and what may happen naturally in the writing process. Today I am thinking about the argument I am making in a paper and the next 5 or 6 paragraphs that I will write tomorrow. I am reading some prior work (and smiling at passages that I remain particularly proud of), recalling conversations and lecture notes on the subject, and otherwise mixing words, phrases, sentences, anecdotes, and explanations of my own device with "new-ish" insights. When I write tomorrow, how will I discern the line I must not cross?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-67233336275741171512014-11-12T17:40:49.115+01:002014-11-12T17:40:49.115+01:00In many ways self-patcherism (if you will) is my c...In many ways self-patcherism (if you will) is my complaint against Zizek. And if it's true about the <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i> that does explain some things. Don't we think it could have been "thought through" and reduced to something like the <i>Tractatus</i>? Yes, that's what we think.<br /><br />In general, discourse would be a lot more tolerable is there was an easily definable category of "serious" writing, consisting only originally and carefully composed representations of what authors actually think.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10721624.post-81281415798581717072014-11-12T14:59:40.392+01:002014-11-12T14:59:40.392+01:00This made me think, somewhat unrelated, whether or...This made me think, somewhat unrelated, whether or not patchwriting from *ones own* previous notes or prose, is a viable or recommedable strategy for producing texts? (This a just a question to question to the writing consultant or perhaps a suggestion for a future post)<br /><br />This association of mine arose, since I just came from a Kant seminar, where a Kant scholar argued that the immense impression of unity that the Critique of Pure Reason gives might be something of an "illusion" and that it might rather be a "patchwork": There is some nachlass and historical evidence which suggests that Kant just scrambled together his notes from ten years, gave them a slight re-write, an edit and a hasty introduction. Et voila: Critique of Pure Reason.... The other critiques, however, were written more systematically once the framework (or patchwork!) of the first critique was secured.<br /><br />PS: I should add that this thesis of the genesis of the first Critique is not uncontroversial. Other scholars loudly objected... Presskornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03480116067878605339noreply@blogger.com