college https://godammit.com And I'm getting madder. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:00:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://i0.wp.com/godammit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-13-at-7.18.14-AM-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 college https://godammit.com 32 32 110361536 Looking for a Class in Stupidity? https://godammit.com/looking-for-a-class-in-stupidity/ https://godammit.com/looking-for-a-class-in-stupidity/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:00:08 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=3046 Continue reading ]]> viva-stupidity

You’re in luck.   The Occidental College Course Catalog for 2008/2009 offers a course in Stupidity. Here is the description:

Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence rather than its opposite. It is an artifact of our nature as finite beings and one of the most powerful determinants of human destiny. Stupidity is always the name of the Other, and it is the sign of the feminine. This course in Critical Psychology follows the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and most recently, Avital Ronell, in a philosophical examination of those operations and technologies that we conduct in order to render ourselves uncomprehending. Stupidity, which has been evicted from the philosophical premises and dumbed down by psychometric psychology, has returned in the postmodern discourse against Nation, Self, and Truth and makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beevis and Butthead. This course examines stupidity.

Are you still conscious? What do they mean, “it’s a sign of the feminine?”

Um excuse me, I disagree. Not that I even know what they’re trying to say.

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Complicatizing Language https://godammit.com/complicatizing-language/ https://godammit.com/complicatizing-language/#respond Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:22:36 +0000 http://godammit.com/2008/03/03/complicatizing-language/ Continue reading ]]> It must be fun to go to college these days. You can learn to use words like problematize, complexify, and nonpluralizable. Read more about this here.

Reductionist thinking about binary logic? I am so totally disincentivized to figure out what people think they mean when they use these made-up words!

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