I understand that this is your aim. I guess what I am saying is that it does not seem like a good aim to me relative to the aim of countering specific, quotable arguments and generally making an effort to contextualize your arguments in some specific strain of discourse. I.e. cite something and respond to something.
One important reason why is that your argument is not specific or evidence-backed or carefully defined enough to agree or disagree with it, without asking you lots of additional clarifying questions. The effort of anticipating and addressing those clarifying questions is the basic work an author is expected to do. Participating in an ongoing conversation is very helpful in this regard, because the prior work does a lot of the heavy lifting of defining, giving evidence, structuring arguments, and motivating the importance of the issue.
These are basic expectations that just about any reader worth having is going to bring to your work. It’s not obligatory to do that, but if you don’t, then your writing will have the appearance of being draft-quality work that’s more a process of getting your thoughts together, and it’s unclear why you’d expect an audience to seriously engage with that. Yet your tone here seems to imply that you do, in fact, expect readers to take your article seriously. My independent observation is that you have more work to do in order to provoke the kind of conversation that it seems you’re hoping to have, and I would bet that choosing one or more specific previous works to critique would be a good way to move toward that goal.
I understand that this is your aim. I guess what I am saying is that it does not seem like a good aim to me relative to the aim of countering specific, quotable arguments and generally making an effort to contextualize your arguments in some specific strain of discourse. I.e. cite something and respond to something.
One important reason why is that your argument is not specific or evidence-backed or carefully defined enough to agree or disagree with it, without asking you lots of additional clarifying questions. The effort of anticipating and addressing those clarifying questions is the basic work an author is expected to do. Participating in an ongoing conversation is very helpful in this regard, because the prior work does a lot of the heavy lifting of defining, giving evidence, structuring arguments, and motivating the importance of the issue.
These are basic expectations that just about any reader worth having is going to bring to your work. It’s not obligatory to do that, but if you don’t, then your writing will have the appearance of being draft-quality work that’s more a process of getting your thoughts together, and it’s unclear why you’d expect an audience to seriously engage with that. Yet your tone here seems to imply that you do, in fact, expect readers to take your article seriously. My independent observation is that you have more work to do in order to provoke the kind of conversation that it seems you’re hoping to have, and I would bet that choosing one or more specific previous works to critique would be a good way to move toward that goal.