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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i don't condemn things that i don't get per se, but there is PLENTY of miserablly wrong crap and utter intellectual farces where the fraud was obscured by lingo-- and i have read enough of it to know. paper after paper, article after article, photocopies galore
unfortunately the system of a big chunk of the humanities as it stands today is guilty of promoting such frauds.
yes, reading derrida is difficult, reading finnegan's wake is difficult, but it doesn't mean there is nothing to it. however, spewing idiotic gibberish and calling it joycean prose and having critics applaud is a good con job.
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I'm inclined to defend the Humanities against your faint disdain towards it. Of course there's bullshit - I may have told you off the board of my experiences with one of my lecturers - but I think it's unfair to tar the whole thing with the same shitty brush. By contrast, there are
literally thousands of more objectively scientific experiments taking place, often with the sort of funding that the humanities can only dream of, in which the express purpose of the experiment is to discover either fuck all or something so unlikely/ unimportant that it is precisely 0.00000001% away from meaning fuck all. I read in new scientist that the universe is A FUCKING HOLOGRAM and we're imagining the THIRD DIMENSION. UTTER bollocks if you ask me, but enough peers agree with the paper, and the research is original, so that gets passed. You see what I mean?
Everything's full of shit, don't single out the Humanities.