David Thompson on more of those academic…er…conference papers and lecture titles:
Binary Poetics and Ecology in Battlestar Galactica.
The Support Belt Fetish: An Example of Psychoanalysis.
Antagonistic Corpo-Real-ities.
Turtle Times: The Cross-Generational Cult Text of Turtles Forever and Gendered Readings.
The True History of His Beard: Joaquin Phoenix and the Boundaries of Cinéma Vérité.
Exemplarity – The Real: Some Problems of a Realist Exemplarity Exposed through the Channel of an Aesthetic Autopoeisis.
Alan Ball’s True Blood Antics: Queering the Southern Vampire…?
There ya go–now you know why these people are so superior to mere peasants such as engineers and research chemists and plumbers and oil rig workers. None of those would understand the titles, even! Better they just cough up the tax money and leave the real serious work to academia.
