Short Academic Horror Story: Philosophy Subgenre
There are some amusing entries in the Twitter thread #shortacademichorrorstory, which asks for “the shortest academic horror story you can write”:
I regret to inform you #shortacademichorrorstory
— rogier kievit (@rogierK) July 3, 2017
“Let’s revise the core curriculum.” #shortacademichorrorstory
— Laurie McMillan (@FemWritProf) July 5, 2017
Reviewer 1: “Wonderful! Accept as is!”
Reviewer 2: “I hate it! Fix everything!”
Editor: No comment.#shortacademichorrorstory— Kaitlyn Werner (@kaitlynmwerner) July 3, 2017
RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Meeting time?#shortacademichorrorstory
— Landon Schnabel (@LandonSchnabel) July 3, 2017
University robes for sale, never worn. #shortacademichorrorstory
— Jonathan A. Michaels (@JonAMichaels) July 4, 2017
Here’s one attempt for the philosophy subgenre:
“Anyone have any questions? No? No one?” #shortacademichorrorstory
— Daily Nous (@DailyNousEditor) July 5, 2017
Your entries welcome.
Neil deGrasse Tyson opens Twitter. “Philosophy,” he writes…
John Mills…
First, I gave a necessary condition for X, and then I gave a sufficient condition for X. So I have given necessary and sufficient conditions for X…
Student: “But it’s all just subjective anyway…”
David Humes…
“So, all you need to pass this class is a half-baked opinion? I have those, in spades.”
“Suppose there is a twin earth that is like earth but ….”
98765th example, after 50 years of a profession where imagination is practically dead.
Q&A: “I might just be confused here. Surely you didn’t mean to commit yourself to …”
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
Quoted by footnote in a Phronesis article on Plato’s influence in western philosophy.
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