The vocabulary of academia
Post-structuralist * indexical * alterity * meta-art * constructivist * semiotic * hegemony * epistemological * semantic * denotation * intertextual * post-postmodernist * essentialism * the gaze * hyperrealism * metadata * didactic * the 'real' versus 'reality' * and lots more ..
Please tell me if you had to write essays using this kind of thing in your second year at University! This is partly the reason I still have two 2000 word essays to write in the next 6 days and I haven't done them yet. I enjoy the theoretical parts of the course but it's not easy. We do get to watch 'The Matrix' and discuss 'Inception' and dissect YouTube videos of 9/11 in class though, so I like that part. I think if I was younger I would have liked to be a professor of semiology like Umberto Eco, but it's too late for all that. I knew there was a reason I always liked the writings of Jorge Luis Borges (and Scarlett Thomas). If you like reality and illusion, read Borges's short stories, especially Tron.
So, have a couple of photographs instead, much easier :)
Our rather Hogwarts-like campus buildings, and the chaos of the races yesterday.
Please tell me if you had to write essays using this kind of thing in your second year at University! This is partly the reason I still have two 2000 word essays to write in the next 6 days and I haven't done them yet. I enjoy the theoretical parts of the course but it's not easy. We do get to watch 'The Matrix' and discuss 'Inception' and dissect YouTube videos of 9/11 in class though, so I like that part. I think if I was younger I would have liked to be a professor of semiology like Umberto Eco, but it's too late for all that. I knew there was a reason I always liked the writings of Jorge Luis Borges (and Scarlett Thomas). If you like reality and illusion, read Borges's short stories, especially Tron.
So, have a couple of photographs instead, much easier :)
Our rather Hogwarts-like campus buildings, and the chaos of the races yesterday.
