And this is one of the limits of independent scholarship -- we actually have NO INFRASTRUCTURE in place to support being an independent scholar. If you do it (and I don't really do it), you do it like a TT scholar but without any of those supports. Unless you're independently wealthy, it ain't happening. But even if you are, it still imagines a single author/lone genius model for producing scholarship, and that's not an effective way to work.
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