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the last fifteen minutes of every post-colonial studies class ever:

".....weaponsofmassdezzzzz....globalizzzzzzz.......maquiladorazzz....supportforIzzzzz......shellpipelinezzzzzzzzz.....usa:nogood/seeyoutomorrow."

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

All girls, without exception, like Bjork.

Disposable income = better than you ever imagined.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

ramen tastes really good "raw"

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Gay Roomate Drunk, Crying.

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link

GP, I assume by "girls" you mean "college-age gay men"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

...Pace Derrida...

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.delicrafts.com/wordpress/wp-content/jello_patch.jpg

http://www.socialnerve.org/che/che21_small.jpg

http://www.schoolperceptions.com/images/graduate.jpg

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

This isn't quite academiana, but: Christian Fundies wandering around campus wanting to know if they can "ask you a few quesitons".

i actually got cornered in my dorm common area during freshmen year by some campus crusade for christ folks -- one of whom was an RA on another floor of the building. jack-asses.

we also had moonies -- under some stealth name -- wandering around the campus while i was there. fun times, those late 80s/early 90s were.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah -- "gay jeans day"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/2005/04/ucb_torture_teachin_poster.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

lol at ??? + Che = Graduation! Yay!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

academia taught me that everything matters

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

??? = http://www.delicrafts.com/wordpress/wp-content/jello_patch.jpg

http://www.delicrafts.com/wordpress/wp-content/jello_patch.jpg

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link

THEY ARE TEH JELLO SHOTS

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

rhizomes + desiring machines

the madeleine in Recherche (nobody remembers anything else about it)

safe zones

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link

noam chomsky / manufacturing consent / "media criticism"

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

BwO et. al

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

160-some-odd posts and no mention of The Milgram Experiment!

http://www.stangl-taller.at/TESTEXPERIMENT/BILDER/milgram.jpg
http://www.betterlucktomorrow.com/character_sites/steve/pic/buzzer.jpg

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Or the Stanford Prison Experiment!

http://www.prisonexp.org/images/homepic2.gif

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, we could probably have a subset of this for concepts regularly used to explain shit they have nothing to do with:

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: ("OMG the limits of Western knowledge!!!")

Theory of Relativity ("OMG, everything is relative!!!")

Entropy (gets used in discussions of non-physics-based phenomena such as human behavior and politics)

Survival of the Fittest (that reminds me, another classic bit of Academiana 101 is "Darwin didn't actually invent 'survival of the fittest' an economist did," and "'survival of the fittest' as Darwin used it didn't actually mean 'survival of the strongest, fastest, smartest etc.')

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link

"occam's razor" = "let's go for the simple answer; thinking makes my brain hurt"

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Occam's Razor and Shroedinger's cat would fit along those lines of thinking as well.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Gah xpost :)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Many KDD systems incorporate an implicit or explicit preference for simpler models, but this use of “Occam’s razor” has been strongly criticized by several authors (e.g., Schaffer, 1993; Webb, 1996). This controversy arises partly because Occam’s razor has been interpreted in two quite different ways. The first interpretation (simplicity is a goal in itself) is essentially correct, but is at heart a preference for more comprehensible models. The second interpretation (simplicity leads to greater accuracy) is much more problematic. A critical review of the theoretical arguments for and against it shows that it is unfounded as a universal principle, and demonstrably false. A review of empirical evidence shows that it also fails as a practical heuristic.

http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2006/03/is_occams_razor.html

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i forgot all about occam's razor -- it fits this thread PERFECTLY.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

jaymc beat me to flaneur!

most of the ones i'd have posted were taken actually.

semiotics
"to-be-looked-at-ness"
"queering of the..."
phallo(go)centric
third worldIST
the imperial imaginary
geographies of spectatorship
the nature of the (insert medium of choice here)
systems of signification
the uncanny

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Whoa, most of those are at least 200-level.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

convergence, constructionism/essentialism, the digital divide, image politics cf. kennedy/nixon debate, "cf.".

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

"gendered"

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Xtreme programming, ISO 7 layer model, tool of the patriach and the Jacobian matrix.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link

diaspora
opportunity cost
beards

― Fonzie Scheme (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

John Cage's 4'33" (LOL THERE IS A SONG AND THERE IS NO MUSIC, THEY JUST SIT AT A PAINO BENCH FOR FOUR AND A HALF MINUTES)

― Fonzie Scheme (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

ANOVA, OMG

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Duchamp OMG ANYTHING IS ART!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.ciudaddegijon.org/fotos/viesques%2005(jorge%20en%20meta).jpg

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link

oh well. what if i just:

http://www.ciudaddegijon.org/fotos/viesques%2005(jorge%20en%20meta).jpg

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link

whatever. paste away.

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link

in any case,

http://www.christianhubert.com/hypertext/postmodernism1.jpeg

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Stanford Prison Experiment otm
extreme programming otm

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

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

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

drew's smashed-together list is AWESOME.

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

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