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This isn't me saying that I or others cannot get something out of the work done by academics or that they are all inherently bad people. I don't think that. Suissa is very much a person who shouldn't be included anywhere, and she especially shouldn't be included in anything related to anarchism (I don't care if she wrote a fucking book, and I still wouldn't care even if that book was fabulous). The job of academics, whether they are people we like or people we oppose, is to extract things and place them squarely within a walled garden. It is to categorise and define the "proper" aspects of a thing while obfuscating the "improper." That is just part and parcel of academia. (There is a reason there are a handful of academics—not many—who try to make their work as widely available to those it is actually relevant for and why they have to fight to do that in a lot of cases.) And it is more true when people do fuck all to actually engage with and participate in the things they study and research and discuss and write about.