Another parable of academic publishing: the fall of 19th century academic art

I was impressed by Mike Taylor’s  parable of the farmers and the Teleporting Duplicator.    I sketched my own one in Boring mathematics, artistes pompiers and impressionists. Motivated by Mike Taylor’s post, I try here to gather evidence for the fact that the actual development of academic practices parallel the old ones of the 19th century’s   Académie [...]