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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 01:35 am (UTC)The only word I recognized in that line was 'hermeneutics'. hee
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 01:59 am (UTC)How's the recovery going from the summer of intensive Latin? New semester start yet?
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 02:42 am (UTC)Related Latin Memory: One of the instructors had coined an irritating phrase he would use on occasion when a student finally figured out an obvious point: "bingo bingere binxi binctus" as an imaginary dictionary definition. This was irritatingly picked up by two other students who would pepper just about every conversation with it. By the end of it, I did not think I could bear to hear it one more time, and yet here I am, promulgating it myself.
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 02:45 am (UTC)I think this will be the elective that I drop. Wow, is this stuff dense and ultimately not very satisfying.
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 02:14 am (UTC)In other words: keep academia lingo in academia. Once you start spouting words like 'philological' over dinner conversation... well, then you can be worried :-)
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 02:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 02:15 am (UTC)Those words look pretty, though.
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 08:43 pm (UTC)... whatever that means.
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 08:53 pm (UTC)I, too, managed to escape undergrad without taking any theory courses, even being an English major. I was in fact advised against pursuing graduate education in English by one of my professors because of the emphasis placed on theory. And there I was, curious, thinking I knew better. *shakes head*
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 08:39 pm (UTC)Theories do come and go, but some remain kind of cool. Perhaps they can take on a new life as "retro" or "vintage" or something...
I am presently trying to figure out what "structuralist" means. By the time I do, it will be old-fashioned, probably :-( If it isn't already.
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 03:14 am (UTC)Just a drive by, BTW. Love your fics, when you have time to write them.
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 03:17 am (UTC)Those words are some of the main reasons I stopped at the masters.
Ha. Yeah, I've slowly backed away from the readings for the night
and possibly for lifeand am considering dropping this course in favor of the other one I've been going to, which wrenches the brain a lot less. (And happens to be about the brain itself; go figure.)no subject
Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 03:15 am (UTC)Hermeneutics - theories about theories
Semiotics - how language/words are used
Philology - learning about languages
Deconstructionist - looking at the different parts of a thing
Paradigm - worldview
Should I be scared that I can talk like that?
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 08:36 pm (UTC)Oh! and! I was talking with someone today in an AI lab about a robotic lamp he designed with the goal of achieving an emotional, intuitive relationship with its human user. It reminded me of the "helpful" robot from Iron Man. And then in the middle of our discussion, he said, "Have you seen Iron Man?" So I laughed and said I'd just watched it this weekend, and he said he'd only seen it very recently too, and we agreed that it looked like someone from MIT had advised.
Anyway. I thought it was cool.
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2008 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 10th, 2008 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 02:01 pm (UTC)That was also my inclination in my own field of study whenever someone said "neofunctionalism" to me. I understand that technical terms are often useful, but I think the line between useful distinctions and "whee! Look at all the words I know!" can occasionally, in any field, be very thin.
By the way, your post title reminded me of one of my favourite quotes from my brother. You have to imagine the incredibly flat, deadpan surfer drawl for this to be funny.
"Mmmmm, yeah, if there's, like, two things Rutgers, like, does, it's, like, postmodernism and, like, semiotics. Yeah."
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 06:12 pm (UTC)I understand that technical terms are often useful, but I think the line between useful distinctions and "whee! Look at all the words I know!" can occasionally, in any field, be very thin.
It was especially trying because of all the exposure I've had recently to the plain language movement and the practice of explaining oneself as clearly and simply as possible. To be dumped back into "academic" writing was a bit of a shock, and that it was theory-speak on top of it... the whole thing smacked of obfuscation, pretension and maybe insecurity or inclusivity/exclusivity. I think that is not the kind of writing I need to be exposing myself to in light of what I'm meant to be producing in my program.
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 06:07 pm (UTC)In class this morning (the *other* class), we got a video montage of sci fi clips, and the first one up was from Stargate. SG-1, but still. Also The Matrix, and Eternal Sunshine, and one with Christopher Walken.
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 03:20 pm (UTC)...I'm not helping, am I?
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2008 03:38 pm (UTC)http://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4/lingua_franca_v4.html
Wherein a physicist writes a paper full of complete nonsense and submits it to a prestigious cultural studies journal, which *accepts the paper and publishes it*.
House heartily approves.
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2008 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 05:03 pm (UTC)Literary theory is twaddle that should only be endured by grad students in literature (and even then it's pretty useless).
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Date: Sep. 9th, 2008 06:09 pm (UTC)Besides, now is clearly not the time to try to wrap my head around it (and a more introductory class might be a better idea -- or just doing the research on my own)...
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2008 12:33 am (UTC)(I'm just screening your comment because this post isn't locked and it mentions what I'm studying.)
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2008 01:01 am (UTC)Feeling any better?
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2008 01:08 am (UTC)I hope you're feeling better having dropped that class! ;)
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Date: Sep. 10th, 2008 01:22 am (UTC)Translation: coughing fits can get reeeeal ugly.
Oh dear. If you were in a House episode, we'd need to be really worried.