What does it mean to be a cultural intellect? How does knowledge exhibit social status, privilege, and in any case, importance? I’d like to point back to a rather unlikely source…Flemish curiosity paintings from the 1600-1700s. Rather unexpected…but nevertheless it can possibly be connected to the emergence of the music “mash-up”, the likes of GirlTalk and . . . → Read More: I’d Like to Thank the Academy: theories on climbing the intellectual ladder