Here’s a course I’d like to take

From the Occidental College Course Catalog:

180. STUPIDITY.

Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence rather than its opposite. It is an artifact of our nature as finite beings and one of the most powerful determinants of human destiny. Stupidity is always the name of the Other, and it is the sign of the feminine. This course in Critical Psychology follows the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and most recently, Avital Ronell, in a philosophical examination of those operations and technologies that we conduct in order to render ourselves uncomprehending. Stupidity, which has been evicted from the philosophical premises and dumbed down by psychometric psychology, has returned in the postmodern discourse against Nation, Self, and Truth and makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beevis and Butthead. This course examines stupidity.

Griffin
CORE REQUIREMENT MET: UNITED STATES

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2 Responses to Here’s a course I’d like to take

  1. Fred says:

    I took it as an independent study.

  2. Steve Martin says:

    Going to college in this day in age will definitely increase one’s “STUPIDITY”.

    Better to give your the money and have them travel.

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