Comments on: More on Beautiful Geeks http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/11/more-on-beautiful-geeks Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Collins http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/11/more-on-beautiful-geeks/comment-page-1#comment-443 Chris Collins Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:16:49 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/11/more-on-beautiful-geeks#comment-443 I'd say that doing a dissertation on anything makes one's first category Academic and then you can go from there. In part your worldview as you approach all of these things seems to be flowing from an academic place, and you are applying an academic framework to them. I don't know that Academic and Geeky are the same. (Something, perhaps, about how being a good Academic means being more Earnest* than most Geeks seems about their pursuits.) *I spend about a minute trying to come up with a better word than Earnest: Trying for something like "Seeing their work as both important in the micro (Important to themselves and their careers) and macro (Important to Humanity (or the academe?) senses of the word--I'd say geeky pursuits lack the macro sense (at least generally speaking...the Geek Culture Manifesto stuff might be building toward something like that). Alas and Alack, I must go learn to be a programmer now. C I’d say that doing a dissertation on anything makes one’s first category Academic and then you can go from there. In part your worldview as you approach all of these things seems to be flowing from an academic place, and you are applying an academic framework to them.

I don’t know that Academic and Geeky are the same. (Something, perhaps, about how being a good Academic means being more Earnest* than most Geeks seems about their pursuits.)

*I spend about a minute trying to come up with a better word than Earnest: Trying for something like “Seeing their work as both important in the micro (Important to themselves and their careers) and macro (Important to Humanity (or the academe?) senses of the word–I’d say geeky pursuits lack the macro sense (at least generally speaking…the Geek Culture Manifesto stuff might be building toward something like that).

Alas and Alack, I must go learn to be a programmer now.

C

]]> By: Halfawake http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/11/more-on-beautiful-geeks/comment-page-1#comment-438 Halfawake Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:28:18 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/11/more-on-beautiful-geeks#comment-438 <i>I’m doing a whole dissertation on geek culture here. How much more geeky can I get? </i> Isn't that more <i>nerdy</i> than <i>geeky</i>? I’m doing a whole dissertation on geek culture here. How much more geeky can I get?

Isn’t that more nerdy than geeky?

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