See you ’round, IA
I’m terribly late to the party, but I want to drop a present on the table anyway.
Invisible Adjunct is hanging up her blog, to seek green pastures outside the Ivory Tower.
I’ll miss her something fierce, not least because she said with clarity and grace what I can only ever manage to say with the coarse brutality of a muckraker. She achieved what I tried and failed at: she got them talking out loud, the hurt people, the abandoned people, the shot-down people. Call it the last gasp of my personal youthful idealism—I think she has changed academia, and will continue to do so even if she never writes another word on the subject.
It’s such a big world. I’m never comfortable saying who’s going to do well in it. I know, though, that if IA doesn’t manage to prosper, it won’t be her—it’ll be the system.
I think she’ll be back in the blogsphere someday. I can see why she’d want to turn her back on it now, but now is a long way from always. I do hope that I find her again, when she returns.
On the off-chance, though—IA, if you ever want to shed the chrysalis completely, let me know. I’ll happily take the domain and its contents under my wing. Much too important to let fade.