According to the guest lecturer for my history and film course, semiotics is a dead academic discipline. That's awesome. Not only is my degree useless in the real world but it's also useless in the academic world. WICKED! Don't know why I care... I guess I just don't like someone telling me what I know is useless gets my goat. Besides, he was a Ph.D student in Film Studies. FILM STUDIES!!! Like that's a real academic discipline. Sorry, I'm just angry.
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WHAT AN ASSWIPE! I can't believe anyone who devotes their life to academia would call any subject of study 'dead' - let's go egg his house! wuahahh - carabear
Hey, it worked for Umberto Eco. You could go be the articulate version of a popular novelist.
where did this crackpot get his PhD? isn't semiotics, like, the foundation for pretty much every major theory that emerged in the 20th century? where would all the post-structuralists be without structuralism? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not sure that I know many semioticians, per se, but de saussure, for instance is widely read. and I've certainly encountered a c.s. pierce reference here and there.
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