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The research industrial complex describes the self-reinforcing system of incentives across universities, funding bodies, journals, and publishers that rewards publication volume and impact metrics over meaningful scientific progress. The term draws on Eisenhower's military-industrial complex to highlight how interconnected institutional interests can sustain a system that actively works against its own stated mission.
Academic publishing has converged on the written journal article as the dominant form of scholarly output, but knowledge has always been transmitted through conversation, dialogue, and oral communication. This post explores whether audio scholarship—podcasts, recorded dialogues, oral histories—deserves recognition as legitimate scholarly work. Drawing on Boyer's model of scholarship, it argues that format matters less than the rigour, intention, and intellectual contribution behind the work, and considers what it would take for academic culture to broaden its definition of what counts.