{"id":67258,"date":"2024-09-14T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=67258"},"modified":"2024-09-13T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:50:31","slug":"qotd-academia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/14\/qotd-academia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8230; the ivory tower \u2014 that is to say, an institution where all the drama is entirely self-manufactured by vain, petty people who think they&#8217;re much smarter than they actually are. That rules out most genres people actually enjoy reading right there. There&#8217;s comedy, I guess, and I considered giving that a go, but the modern university is beyond parody. Maybe Joseph Heller at his absolute apex could pull it off, but I&#8217;m no Joseph Heller. Nor am I Franz Kafka, who is the onlie begetter of the only other genre that would cover academia: Surrealist, absurdist, dystopian horror. The adjective &#8220;Kafkaesque&#8221; describes graduate school perfectly, no doubt, but if you somehow need a dose of that, just go read <em>The Trial<\/em>. Or watch the film <em>Brazil<\/em>, and imagine everyone is twice as polysyllabically self-important &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/storytelling-fail\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;Storytelling Fail&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-07-13.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the ivory tower \u2014 that is to say, an institution where all the drama is entirely self-manufactured by vain, petty people who think they&#8217;re much smarter than they actually are. That rules out most genres people actually enjoy reading right there. There&#8217;s comedy, I guess, and I considered giving that a go, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,57,28,41,13],"tags":[463,1462,764],"class_list":["post-67258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-parody","tag-severian","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-huO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91453,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67258\/revisions\/91453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}