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[I]f, like Derrida and Foucault, you are a scrupulous academic who is largely an academic, you stage the crisis relationship between theory and practice in the practice of your theoretical production in various ways instead of legitimating the polarization between the academy and the real world by disavowing it, and then producing elegant solutions that will never be seriously tested either in large-scale decision-making or among the disenfranchised.
Gayatri Spivak, More on Power/Knowledge (1992)