ABSTRACT
In this latter kind of operation, says Kelley, “What emerges from the collective is not a series of critical individual actions but a multitude of simultaneous actions whose collective pattern is far more important. This is the swarm model.” Yet, Kelley admits:
The models of intellectual work in the humanities implicated in this volume operate along some similar continuum. At one end is the traditional model of the individual scholar, laboring alone, in a system that engenders and rewards individual invention. Problems are best solved by the power of one, writing into and out of conversations with other lone workers. This is the traditional environment
that makes the university work environment (intellectual work) one of the least cooperative or collaborative work environments one can imagine. This is the environment driven by what David Damrosch (1995) calls the “norms of alienation and aggression” that are “still enshrined in the university and are the products not of nature but of cultural choices, and archaic ones at that” (p. 106).
