en fait Morozov s’inspire surtout d’Eden Medina, et insulte aussi Andrew Pickering au passage ; ce qui a déclenché un sacré tollé chez les historiens américains
An Unresolved Issue : Evgeny Morozov, The New Yorker, and the Perils of « Highbrow Journalism », by Lee Vinsel — Taming the American Idol
▻https://lee-vinsel.squarespace.com/blog/2014/10/11/an-unresolved-issue-evgeny-morozov-the-new-yorker-and-the-pe
[sur Medina]
Morozov only once mentioned Medina, and the mention came well into his text. To add insult to injury, citation was glancing at best: “As Eden Medina shows in ’Cybernetic Revolutionaries,’ her entertaining history of Project Cybersyn, [Stafford] Beer set out to solve an acute dilemma that Allende faced.”
(…)
[sur Pickering]
Morozov replied, “Pickering’s book was duly read when it came out and it failed to impress. Actually, I found it awful.” Here, Morozov repeats a mistake that he also made in his Tumblr post, when he wrote, “Am I absolutely happy with Medina’s book? No. In fact, I even have minor quibbles with it.” We don’t cite other authors because we agree or disagree with them but because the hard work they have done has taught us something.
(note : les deux #livres en question sont absolument passionnants !)
Au final on a une situation où l’intellectuel-troll le plus en vue, membre d’une des facs les plus puissantes (Harvard) alliée à un titre de presse « haut de gamme » (The New Yorker), écrasent sans vergogne une jeune prof d’histoire (femme) d’une fac moins top (Indiana).
(cette histoire est pour vous @thibnton @sabineblanc @mona et @reka (au moins))
