‘Intersectional Politics of Queer Activism’: Some of the Worst PhDs the Taxpayer is Funding
Who’s looking forward to today’s Budget, where Rachel Reeves will set out her plan to fill the nation’s £22 billion funding black hole?
To cheer readers of the Daily Sceptic, in addition to my other articles about colossal amounts of taxpayer waste, I thought I’d give 10 examples of current PhDs Brits have been charged for.
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And they all used ChatGPT
Maybe I am being unfair to ChatGPT
I think I should apply to do a PhD in the emergence of word salad as an exponential growth indicator of non-binary carbon dioxide in the global dimension.
Impressive. You must be an ‘expert’.
Ed will give you a job
PhD = Pretty Happy Dudes, Piling it on High and Deep.
Largely a waste of time in most cases. Increasingly the case with many degrees.
Goal – Industries being created.
Funding being made permanent.
Anti-reality being promoted.
Or as Kuhn called it, ‘paradigms’, established by power, money, not ‘science’.
I doubt the medieval invention of the University had such degradation and stupidity in their business plans.
Painter and house Decorator.
Good one, will use that if you don’t mind. I find real Painters to be quite useful, especially the tall ones. Not sure about most PhD’s. We are wallowing in abstract b.s. models and theories about nothing.
Stop Taxpayer Funded Useless Degrees
Here are some from my thoughts that perhaps the above Universities could add to their Phd programmes
No funding for you, as you haven’t addressed the urgent need for ‘decolonising’ in any of your proposals.
what about if I just put it as an add on to the word salad
well… as long as it’s a Vegan word salad
Decolonizing cabbage: I plan to study how the act of planting greens by black transfeminists in suburban allotments in the capital of Nigeria helps to uncover hidden black narratives which support queer deconstruction of putatively English vegetable storylines.
The joke is many of our ‘spoof’ PhDs are probably true….
What part would cavolo nero play in your studies? Just asking.
I suggest something along the lines of
Devoured! How the cannibalization of the black majority population by the empire to sustain its looter economy symbolically resonates to this day in the structurally racist habit of white people to eat foreign ‘black’ cabbage.
Not so much word salad as word coleslaw
‘This practice research PhD will contribute to a paucity….’ at least they’re not lying.
My thesis aims to explore the possibilities of challenging and even subverting the hegemonising representations of asylum seekers and refugees in such highly bio/necro-political spaces in contemporary narratives
A fascinating collection of the magical incantations – “hegemonising”, “narratives”, “bio/necro political spaces”, “challenging”, “subverting” – that the marxo-fascists are addicted to. But note there’s no “studying” or “describing” – i.e. it’s soaked in contemporary New Dark Age political activism masquerading as the pursuit of knowledge.
In other words, and less succinctly, bolleaux.
Proposed PhD thesis that’s sorely missing (likely without any chance of getting funded): I’m planning to do some experimental, linguistic research into possible avenues for translating AHRC-sponsored PhD thesises into actually meaningful English.
I don’t know it is like an exercise in self-abasement and a competition to see who is the most abased at every level. It is an effective strategy because all it takes is one disruotive element and then the certainty that most employees at every level of the bureaucracy will go along with anything for a quiet life. It is a worm-like energy and I don’t see anything Aryan about it.
Ahead of her Budget, Reeves has promised there won’t be a “return to austerity”.
Increasing taxation will increase the likelihood or genuine austerity as more money is extracted from those producing wealth.