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Stanford Prison Experiment otm
extreme programming otm

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Students who will think that obscure theories have an amazing relevance over their own lives
Students who assume that their course is relevant to whatever anyone else is studying
How to deal with rich students on a day-to-day basis - the ones for whom, say, popping over to Switzerland for the skiing is a normal regular weekend activity - without wanting to stab them

Actual academic things as per the original point of the thread:
Viking Sagas were neither history nor fiction
Strindberg was a bit of a misogenist
There's no such thing as "prehistoric Celts", unless you're talking about the Alps (this is a particularly good one for winding up hippies)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

By the time I finished college I had dozens of those Barbara Krueger postcards. A great many of these caca-demic flourishes were introduced to me in high school, or by record store clerks at the time.

Cathexis
Memes
Reification
Postmodernism*
Game theory

*famously dismissed by me as "oh, stuff that reminds you of other stuff, with extra added imaginary nostalgia...and they want 10 pages on something THAT obvious?"

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link

thick description close reading
logical positivism verificationism
epistemé author-effect
objet petit a Dasein
sinthome/symptom commodity fetishism
reification repression, sublimation
false consciousness "Whig history"
ontic/ontological long dureé
reductio ad absurdum abjection
Aufhebung l'informe
negative dialectics subjectivity/intersubjectivity
différance "subjectivity effects"
the trace pharmakon
the subaltern screen memory
performativity the Law of the Father
symbolic, real, imaginary alienation
suture ostranenie
"the male gaze" hylé
the archive base materialism
simulacra/simulation naive realism
aura ideological state appartuses (ISAs)
introjection/incorporation heterology
abreaction, transference chora
the fold the culture industry
the body without organs tautology
ressentimment totality
rhizome fort/da
jouissance the primal scene
techné phallus, phallogocentrism
the Other the jesuve
langue/parole "the accursed share"
essentialism speech acts/illocutionary force
"hailing" "thrown-ness"
post-(x) detournement

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:47 (seventeen years ago) link

uh oh, the text above was supposed to be two separate columns- now it's all jumbled together, as if by some gobbledygook generator . . . (hey wait a minute . . . )

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy hairy Jesus fuck, Drew, that's a Sarah Lawrence module on Irigaray, isn't it?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link

damn, for some reason i think she's a hottie:

http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/4094/irigarayfoto5yb.jpg

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

(xxpost) Someone just finished a dissertation. :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

drew's smashed-together list is AWESOME.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

It was a handout I made for an "Intro to Theory" class I taught- it just said "HAVE YOU SEEN ME?" on the top- it was for grad students at an art school. The point was that people have intimidating theory buzzwords thrown at them and it's alienating and spooky. But the terms do mean something, and they don't have to be used as firecrackers.

All jumbled together it sort of looks like a poem, or some lyrics for a particularly arty band or something.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe that was the b-side of Scritti Politti's fourth single, actually.

The intimidation factor of theory-words seems seriously diminished now that wikipedia exists. (Same goes for the extent to which people understand the ideas at any significant depth, but that's coming from a guy who can't seem to resist those Oxford UP Very Short Introduction to ... Wittgenstein books at the front counter.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

VSI: Actually, these really are way cool, when it comes down to it -- especially considering the main previous competition was from those horrible overillustrated pastel-colored cartoony introduction-to-theory/philosophy/science books. The VSIs aren't quite as confused about your intelligence level and aren't trying so hard to entertain you, because they assume that if you picked the book up, then you're already sufficiently interested in the topic -- they just come off like a mid-level professor at a decent university was asked to write the text for an intro-level class on a given topic (which is precisely what they are).

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep, I read the one about Hegel and was glad I did.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

drew's post reminded me of another one: la chose en soi.

another: (a) undergrads pretending that they can make any damn sense out of heidegger; (b) professors wringing their hands when some smart ass points out that heidegger was a nazi (who nonetheless schtupped a hot young jewess [hannah arendt]).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

One for the civil engineers out there... The Tacoma Narrows Bridge

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/images/narrows1_bridge_1.jpg

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

we saw that footage in HS physics! it never stops being fun!

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that Tacoma Narrows Bridge footage in Bruce Conner's A Movie?

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

HELLO I AM SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS. LEARN ABOUT ME AND OTHERS AT TEH COLLEGE.

― themountainswillscreamsforthebloodoftheblindvultureswhoflybeforethepeople'ssun! , Wednesday, 14 June 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, all people are from Africa, not just the blacks!

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"Yo, do you like The Rite of Spring?
"Fuck yeah man, it caused riots!"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

ecriture feminine
semiotic chora
the abject
schizoanalysis!
deterritorialization!
dialogics
polyphony
carnival

OMG awesome Propp fairy tale generator

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

are there no science and engineering majors on this whole goddamn thread? Death to Liberal Arts!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Integration by parts?

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The Jordan form?

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Separation of variables?

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The Dining Philosophers?

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost: "The Cyborg: Where Science and the Arts Join Forces"

http://isaacschlueter.com/images/laforge.gif

"IN SPACE!"

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Thursday, 15 June 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

This brings back a lot of memories, such as:

free indirect discourse, which sounds a bit dirty
pastiche was also a term they loved bandying about
heteronormativity
totalitarianism - and how Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union really were v. different
docile bodies
false consciousness
base/superstructure
hybridity was one of the favourites of favourites
mimicry and ambivalence
white man's burden
binary oppositions!
metonymy
The Enlightenment as a catchcry for all liberal thinking after the French Revolution
auteur
Epicurus and how he is really misunderstood; the guy was all about moderation
hyper-reality
the copy
defamiliarisation
the spectacle
lowbrow culture is actually really cool!
inscription
return of the repressed
celebration of the irrational - which means all academics can get away with writing rubbish
the novum
diachronic/synchronic
language does not mirror reality but rather creates reality
paradigms!
discourse!

Some of these concepts are useful, but in many cases they seem to be like a secret language that suggests elite membership to make others feel less intelligent. The great irony is when these terms are misunderstood and then taken over by the masses

― salexandra (salexander), Thursday, 15 June 2006 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't noticed anything being mentioned yet that I (first) learnt at uni, but the one thing that I can think of that I did first hear at uni was the word "Pedagogy". I hate that word. Yuk.

― miele kitty (miele), Thursday, 15 June 2006 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link

harold innis and staples theory
the turner thesis
equalisation payments + resource revenues
foreign direct investment and the branch plant economy
the keynesian welfare state (KWS)
the caudillo complex
the waffle!

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 15 June 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

american colleges sound awful

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i shouldn't have majored in math, everyone else got to learn more interesting things than i did :(

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i feel u caitlin

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

vis-a-vis, ergo, QED

A non-native speaker asked me about vis-à-vis. I told him I tend not to use it, or use it only as a special effect, to sound elevated and most likely humorous. Search of the archives seems to confirm my suspicion, but I dunno.

― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link

TS Lou Reed vis-à-vis John Cale

― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link

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