Eric Jarosinski was a frustrated academic who found his (despairing, irreverent) voice on Twitter. Eighty-five thousand people are listening.
“Yes, I believe in happiness. The sad kind,” the former Penn professor tweeted recently.
Follow @NeinQuarterlyHe’s been the subject of a New Yorker piece and most recently, a Philadelphia Inquirer profile, both of which explain how, when his passion for academia soured, he turned to Twitter.
Adopting the Twitter persona was “extremely liberating,” he said, because it helped him to remember what had attracted him to the Frankfurt School philosophers in the first place: their more literary works, especially their aphorisms.
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