Logical chain of events to describe intellectuals.
Posted: 11 Nov 2025, 07:29
For me is easy to see how elites manufacture intellectuals like noam chomsky, juden peterstein or zizek. But is harder for me to comprehend the process of major context builders like althusser.
Step 1 academic patronage network, they select a young guy that is promising and well connected.
Step 2 institutional positioning, they secure him with a position in a symbolic university or in a field that is ideologically fashionable.
There has to be disciplinary timing for making step 3 happen. The intellectual has to fill a gap that is needed in public discourse.
Step 4 initial media coverage, small AB tests and promote notoriety in the intellectual circles.
Step 5 institutional consecration. It involves organizing intellectual think tanks and educate the educators.
Step 6 media amplification. This is last stage, media will have all info they need to correctly place the new philosophical authority.
Step 7 Canonization. The guy is a saint and is included in curricula of new student.
I invented this process. Is something I created to make a logical sequence of events. I think this is how elites create major intellectuals. As for minor intellectuals like peterson, chomsky or zizek, the elites just spam them on amazon, media, and do not need to canonize them, they are satellites and they matter much less, they are slightly above the level of a filthy propagandist.
Step 1 academic patronage network, they select a young guy that is promising and well connected.
Step 2 institutional positioning, they secure him with a position in a symbolic university or in a field that is ideologically fashionable.
There has to be disciplinary timing for making step 3 happen. The intellectual has to fill a gap that is needed in public discourse.
Step 4 initial media coverage, small AB tests and promote notoriety in the intellectual circles.
Step 5 institutional consecration. It involves organizing intellectual think tanks and educate the educators.
Step 6 media amplification. This is last stage, media will have all info they need to correctly place the new philosophical authority.
Step 7 Canonization. The guy is a saint and is included in curricula of new student.
I invented this process. Is something I created to make a logical sequence of events. I think this is how elites create major intellectuals. As for minor intellectuals like peterson, chomsky or zizek, the elites just spam them on amazon, media, and do not need to canonize them, they are satellites and they matter much less, they are slightly above the level of a filthy propagandist.