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Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:27:56 2015 No.6189590 [DELETED]

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>Literary "theory"
>Gender "theory"
>Feminist "theory"

Why is this allowed?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:28:44 2015 No.6189593 >Queer "theory" also

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Tue Feb 24 19:29:06 2015 No.6189596 What's wrong with it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:29:55 2015 No.6189601 For my MA degree I was allowed to take courses from the English department. Two were on critical theory Two were on gender theory One was on translation theory One was on literary theory None were just about reading books

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:30:31 2015 No.6189604 >>6189596 They are not scientific and shouldn't pretend to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-FVctaW3j0

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:30:56 2015 No.6189607 >>6189590 >Gender theory >Feminist theory They're like the same thing

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:32:46 2015 No.6189615 >>6189590 >>Literary "theory" i don't see too much wrong with that

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:34:17 2015 No.6189621 File: 2.96 MB, 4622x3683, Red Pill.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6189590 We need diverse perspectives goy!

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Tue Feb 24 19:35:01 2015 No.6189626 >>6189604 Are you going to complain next about someone saying their subject has a lot of gravity?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:36:03 2015 No.6189633 >>6189590 Because there are a lot of academics and not enough important ideas to go around.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:36:47 2015 No.6189638 >>6189604 lmao

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:38:33 2015 No.6189642 File: 2.51 MB, 3648x2736, eh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6189626 Are you the cattiest bitch on this board?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:39:21 2015 No.6189645 >>6189626 Yea, cause a colloquialism is totally analogous to scholars wrapping their bullshit with pseudoscience to give it an air of credibility.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:39:22 2015 No.6189646 >>6189615 There is no such thing as a 'theory' of literature. It is like asking for a theory of sculptures.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:40:05 2015 No.6189652 File: 2.57 MB, 600x338, BOOM.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6189626 >>6189645

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:40:19 2015 No.6189653 do classes in critical theory literally just teach you to interpret anything you chose as racist or sexist?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:40:38 2015 No.6189655 >>6189604 Chomskyan linguistics actually pretends to be scientific, unlike the fields in the OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:40:48 2015 No.6189657 >>6189646 i imagine theory would imply what is considered 'good' and 'bad' in literature with a historical context. i also imagine it'd be the same for sculptures, but with added techniques.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:41:52 2015 No.6189663 >>6189601 >taking half your courses in another department >choosing theory classes and getting mad when they teach theory instead of literature I'm picturing you in undergrad attending an intro class every semester and going "Goddamn basics again!"

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:42:08 2015 No.6189664 >>6189653 Critical theory teaches you that subjectivism is literally 100% true and it's impossible to prove anything.

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Tue Feb 24 19:42:28 2015 No.6189666 >>6189645 "Theory" has been applied to academics long before science defined it as a term for their use.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:43:23 2015 No.6189671 File: 15 KB, 300x244, hypno02.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6189663 >ignoring that the so called "basics" being taught are bullshit Marxist brainwashing

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Tue Feb 24 19:43:38 2015 No.6189673 >>6189646 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_art

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:44:23 2015 No.6189677 File: 19 KB, 400x400, 1423158344276.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6189666 Satan pls take ur semantics and go.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:46:15 2015 No.6189686 >>6189590 Someone has to pay the academics their salary

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:46:50 2015 No.6189694 >>6189663 I didn't choose them, those were my only options

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:47:31 2015 No.6189697 All these university educated people are not going to get jobs in construction or sales, you know? They gotta do something with their degrees

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:47:59 2015 No.6189698 >>6189694 Your only options for half your time in graduate school were theory courses in another department? So basically you did no research and ended up in a shitty graduate program and then come here to cry about it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:49:19 2015 No.6189710 File: 44 KB, 446x400, laughing girls.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6189698 >he spends his time defending academia on a mongolian cartoon website

Anonymous Tue Feb 24 19:59:31 2015 No.6189776

>>6189646

>There is no such thing as a 'theory' of literature.

Wow you're so right we shouldn't even try to study literature in any meaningful capacity whatsoever, I mean, literature and literary taste are entirely subjective so what's the fucking point of ever discussing anything anybody ever wrote down in the entire history of mankind

You colossally dense fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 20:06:05 2015 No.6189806 >>6189776 But we shouldn't study literature.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 20:07:15 2015 No.6189811 >Political "theory"

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 20:08:40 2015 No.6189816 >>6189698 You're the only one crying m8

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 20:09:15 2015 No.6189820 File: 35 KB, 467x528, 1296416044991.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >you will never instigate a purge of academia leaving only the STEM fields

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 20:11:55 2015 No.6189834 File: 145 KB, 400x352, oh-my-god.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6189820 >Infinite poorly-written, horribly obtuse, hideously misspelled lab reports It's almost too awful to conceive of.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 20:11:59 2015 No.6189835 File: 50 KB, 600x817, LeFaggot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6189776 What is meaning?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 24 20:27:24 2015 No.6189895 >>6189835 People like you are the reason nobody takes the humanities seriously.

Anonymous Wed Feb 25 05:35:43 2015 No.6191445

>>6189604
>b-but muh empirical evidence
If you were even moderately educated in theory, you would realise that it never was scientific and never tried to be. It's more to do with language and its artifices, and how it pulls the wool in front of our eyes to true perceivable reality. How do you find any kind of 'empirical' evidence within a partially fictionalised structure, that of conscious human experience?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 05:41:11 2015 No.6191452 >>6189820 >leaving only STEM students alive >being an anti-natalist

Anonymous Wed Feb 25 06:26:16 2015 No.6191506

'Theory' is philosophy for the lowest form of intellect.
>Hey guys, I know nothing about history, science, philosophy, or psychology, but I've read enough books and felt bad for enough transexual black women that I think I can make universal statements about psychology, philosophy, humanity, and the universe in general, even though I'm totally unqualified aside from this degree in bullshit
This stuff is fine when it's confined to literature but when it bleeds over into real life (i.e., gender inessentialism) it shows itself to be bad for the mental and physical wellbeing of society and everyone in it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 06:50:31 2015 No.6191540 >>6189835 Fuck off Wittgenstein.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 07:34:22 2015 No.6191671 If you use enough sophisticated words at once inside a college people might take you seriously even if you are full of shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKqhHhLNA7o

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 25 07:40:58 2015 No.6191695 >>6189590 To differentiate it from the respective practices. Duh.

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