I've just finished reading the Chanson de Roland and have no mood for Shakespeare's Henry V just yet. Interestingly, I 'look' like a science student, as a classmate remarked one day. It created quite a furore on facebook. I've written the following piece of nonsensical dribble to demonstrate my academic grounding in the arts and social sciences. Don't take it seriously - it's an improvised rant that should prove entertaining for the informed audience...
Rene Descartes: "I think, therefore I doubt, therefore I am" (the real quote)
Immanuel Kant: "An analytic statement"
Karl Marx: "He's oppressed"
Sigmund Freud: "He's repressed"
Edward Said: "He's 'Occidentalised'"
Ludwig Wittgenstein: "You're all talking nonsense - "he's" my Beetle"
Erving Goffman: "Descarte's posing a dramatic identity"
William Shakespeare: "All the world's a Goffman"
Edward Carr: "Is his history of accepted judgements?"
Robin Collingwood: "No, it's about Great Men"
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Yes! They have the will to power!"
Mao Zedong: "Does it grow out of the barrel of a gun?"
Michael Foucault: "It's power-knowledge, the politics of discourse define knowledge!"
Lee Kuan Yew: "I aim to be correct, not politically correct! You should too!"
Peter Winch: "You're all ethnocentric"
Jeremy Bentham: "Then let's reform everyone in my Panopticon"
John Mill: "As long as it's utilitarian..."
Deng Xiaoping: "Yea, it doesn't matter it the cat is black or white as long as it catches the rat"
John Locke: "No! He's got the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Hobbes: "Only if the Leviathan approves"
George Orwell: "But freedom is slavery, at least in 1984"
Jean Rousseau: "You civil savages"
Albert Camus: "Fellow monsieur, Sisyphus is more interesting than you"
Francis Bacon: "Settle it with the scientific method: by far the best proof is experience"
Thomas Kuhn: "But observation is theory-laden"
Karl Popper: "I'll falsify that!"
Ambrose Bierce: "Harangue: A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue-outang"
Emile Durkheim: "But each has a Function in society"
Adam Smith: "Yes, individual pursuit for the common good."
Winston Churchill: "Nevar waas soul mulch owed buy so many twoo so few"
Aldous Huxley: "But we need functionalism for a brave new world"
Plato: "I'll hide in my cave until your ideas take Form"
Ben: "Damn I've run out of wine"
Rene Descartes: "I think, therefore I doubt, therefore I am" (the real quote)
Immanuel Kant: "An analytic statement"
Karl Marx: "He's oppressed"
Sigmund Freud: "He's repressed"
Edward Said: "He's 'Occidentalised'"
Ludwig Wittgenstein: "You're all talking nonsense - "he's" my Beetle"
Erving Goffman: "Descarte's posing a dramatic identity"
William Shakespeare: "All the world's a Goffman"
Edward Carr: "Is his history of accepted judgements?"
Robin Collingwood: "No, it's about Great Men"
Friedrich Nietzsche: "Yes! They have the will to power!"
Mao Zedong: "Does it grow out of the barrel of a gun?"
Michael Foucault: "It's power-knowledge, the politics of discourse define knowledge!"
Lee Kuan Yew: "I aim to be correct, not politically correct! You should too!"
Peter Winch: "You're all ethnocentric"
Jeremy Bentham: "Then let's reform everyone in my Panopticon"
John Mill: "As long as it's utilitarian..."
Deng Xiaoping: "Yea, it doesn't matter it the cat is black or white as long as it catches the rat"
John Locke: "No! He's got the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Hobbes: "Only if the Leviathan approves"
George Orwell: "But freedom is slavery, at least in 1984"
Jean Rousseau: "You civil savages"
Albert Camus: "Fellow monsieur, Sisyphus is more interesting than you"
Francis Bacon: "Settle it with the scientific method: by far the best proof is experience"
Thomas Kuhn: "But observation is theory-laden"
Karl Popper: "I'll falsify that!"
Ambrose Bierce: "Harangue: A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue-outang"
Ambrose Bierce: "Harangue: A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harrangue-outang"
Emile Durkheim: "But each has a Function in society"
Adam Smith: "Yes, individual pursuit for the common good."
Winston Churchill: "Nevar waas soul mulch owed buy so many twoo so few"
Aldous Huxley: "But we need functionalism for a brave new world"
Plato: "I'll hide in my cave until your ideas take Form"
Ben: "Damn I've run out of wine"
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