Academia is an honor-culture, in which recognition"in the form of citations"serves as a kind of ersatz currency. In ancient Greek, there is a word "pleonexia," which means "grasping after more than your share." Plagiarism norms encourage pleonectic overreach. One can see such overreach in the fact that those with perfect job-security"famous, tenured faculty"do not seem […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:03PM on November 22, 2019