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I can't believe people are actually getting their PhD degrees writing about Harry Potter at this point. Has academia degenerated this far? Can I get my PhD writing about anime instead of shit that matters?

>> No.14184293
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>>14184285
>Nothing smart can be said about a dumb thing reeeee

>> No.14184301
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Academia:tm: is a scam. Get out of it as soon as possible.

>> No.14184323

>>14184301
Who's this Arab and what's he ranting about?

>> No.14184348

>>14184285
Write a PhD about /lit/. Use it to argue against dialogic epistemology, because "intellectual conversation" is actually purely aesthetic. Then raise the question of whether this is anti-dialogue, or if it actually proves a rational basis for aesthetics.

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>>14184285
The university intellectuals also play an important role in carrying out the System's trick. Though they like to fancy themselves independent thinkers, the intellectuals are (allowing for individual exceptions) the most oversocialized, the most conformist, the tamest and most domesticated, the most pampered, dependent, and spineless group in America today. As a result, their impulse to rebel is particularly strong. But, because they are incapable of independent thought, real rebellion is impossible for them. Consequently they are suckers for the System's trick, which allows them to irritate people and enjoy the illusion of rebelling without ever having to challenge the System's basic values.

Because they are the teachers of young people, the university intellectuals are in a position to help the System play its trick on the young, which they do by steering young people's rebellious impulses toward the standard, stereotyped targets: racism, colonialism, women's issues, etc. Young people who are not college students learn through the media, or through personal contact, of the "social justice" issues for which students rebel, and they imitate the students. Thus a youth culture develops in which there is a stereotyped mode of rebellion that spreads through imitation of peers—just as hairstyles, clothing styles, and other fads spread through imitation.

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>>14184285
Is being a middle school dropout and using Harry Potter to advertise your rationality writings the true redpill?

>> No.14184379

>>14184285
And your PhD is about what now, OP?

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>>14184371
i unironically enjoyed his short story Three Worlds Collide

>> No.14184422

>>14184285
>I can't believe people are actually getting their PhD degrees writing about Harry Potter at this point
Neither can I believe it.
Perhaps because it doesn't actually happen.

>> No.14184498

>>14184422
Delusional. It happens, I should know because it's happening in my master's course right now. I have no doubt it will carry on for PhD students.

>> No.14184585

>>14184498
Feel free to show me cases where it happens. For what it's worth, throwing a look at the database of dissertations of my literature department from the last few years, there is barely any genre literature mentioned at all, much less something like Harry Potter.
Though, of course, I don't really see why a careful analysis of the Harry Potter phenomenon would be an illegitimate thing to study, as >>14184293 suggests.

>> No.14184676

>>14184323
Imbecile

>> No.14184694

"Dumbledore and the cloak of invisibility: searching for the queer (sub) text in Harry Potter"

PhD thesis that received government scholarship funding

>> No.14184735

>>14184694
Why is this a worthless thing to explore, if done with rigour? It is actually quite interesting to see how the books seemingly had no mention of homosexuality, yet the books' own author today treats it as if it's always been there.

>> No.14184760

>>14184735
Because homosexuality is instilled. It's a set behavioral mechanism and runs contrary to people's natural inclinations.

You can see this kind of realization with Butterfly and me. :3

>> No.14184762

>>14184285
You have failed to make your passion a profession.

>> No.14184768

Are they a self reinforcing hegemony who will bring anyone into their fold if they parrot correct morals?
Yes.
But there are still good academics out there. Just ask the right questions to the professors you like. The individual is not the system

>> No.14184783

>>14184735

Searching for queer text in a book that has no mention of homosexuality is completely retarded and should not be sponsored by the state

>> No.14184815

>>14184783
What about Snape and Dumbledore's relationship? :3

>> No.14184827

>>14184285
>Can I get my PhD writing about anime instead of shit that matters?
You probably could. People have written theses on Evangelion.

>> No.14184864

There's a guy in my university that wrote his PhD thesis on the implication of writing PhD theses.

>> No.14184880

>>14184783
>implication does not exist
>the curtains were just blue, reeeee

>> No.14184886

>>14184323
Taleb

>> No.14185176

>>14184864
Based

>> No.14185394

Enjoy the Age of Degeneracy

>> No.14186344

>>14184285

I just started my second literature PhD year. I'm European and getting a salary to do this shit, so please don't mention tuition and slave-like overwork. You have to understand that people research all kinds of stuff in every single field. Whether a HP project would be worth it depends on the exact approach I guess. In my opinion, something like >>14184694 is pretty stupid, but readings that focus on particular ideological interpretations are not my thing anyway. There are plenty of weird projects that probably don't deserve funding, but what can you do. I'm enjoying the process and it is interesting to write a lengthy piece on a topic I am passionate about. I don't give a single shit about the Dr title.

>> No.14186360

>>14184783
Wrong.

Everything is political.

Everything is sexual.

Everything is queer.

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>>14186344
>depends on the exact approach
No, it doesn't.
KYS.

>> No.14186369

>>14186360
XD

>> No.14186378

>>14186367

You're an idiot if you think nothing of value can be researched about the major fucking behemoth that is Harry Potter.

>> No.14186951

>>14184422
My “pop culture studies” class begs to differ

>> No.14187013

>>14186951
My condolences, then, for going to a shit uni

>> No.14187195

>>14184285
What a beautiful Harry Potter Trivia Quiz reference

>> No.14187308

>>14184285
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1259592113&disposition=inline Soon

>> No.14187315

Most literary studies departments are now cultural studies departments. Cultural Studies means that all culture is a text that can be read. It's really simple

>> No.14187345

>>14184285
People got degrees writing about LOTR. Why shouldn't they write about HP?

>> No.14188766

>>14187308
holy shit

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>>14184285
In my country somebody is making a grade thesis/dissertation on Naruto.

>> No.14188831

>>14187308
jummy

>> No.14189700

>>14187345

I got my MA writing about The Silmarillion.