post-meeting with supervisor

[charloween]

Seems my history of punning and wordplay hasn't been wasted. My lit review and the article I'm thinking about starting to write (due March 31) are now based in picking apart key theoretical metaphors.

Seems I'm now establishing my approach to theoretical interventions: 1) find a theory that seems inadequate, 2) locate a central metaphor used in describing that theory, 3) mock the metaphor, 4) suggest alternate metaphor that makes more sense, and then 5) propose new theoretical framework. The metaphor is my way in. My MA had a subtle joke about rabbits proliferating: the article is going to make that one a bit more obvious.

Seems it's all based in the subtleties of language, and in working in as many subtle puns into my academic writing as I can. Like the cookies firstgold and I make at Christmas: just enough batter there to hold in the chocolate chips, cranberries, ginger bits... Just enough academic prose surrounding the puns that it looks (and tastes!) like a thesis.

Seems like a good excuse to link to this vid.

Comments

[emef]

omg, I love that vid so much.

[charloween]

Ah, me too! I had to share it with my supervisor because I kept wanting to quote it at her.

[emef]

I've kind of always wanted to do a remix version of that vid, but with the whole song. Like, Bigger! Longer! With More Metaphors!

[charloween]

I would support that. Would you, ah, extend the metaphor? Or just find more examples? That bit in the recent White Collar ep with the sucker would totally qualify.