How You, Yes, YOU, Can Be Both PUNK And A PRETENTIOUS BASTARD (dark Academic) At The SAME TIME.

How you, yes, YOU, can be both PUNK and A PRETENTIOUS BASTARD (dark academic) at the SAME TIME.

(yes, I do recognise that making a 'how-to' type list is basically the opposite of punk, leave me alone.)

Read poetry (I highly recommend John Cooper Clarke).

Be angry all the time, not at people around you, but at capitalism, social injustice, the government, and societal constructs.

Read Marx.

Doc Martens should be your best friend. Yes, they're expensive. But they're also high quality and will last you a lifetime (I've had a pair for about five years now, and they've literally grown with me).

Ratty blazers are cool.

Drink fruit juice, don't take drugs. In the beginning, the punk movement was very anti-drugs, so gangs of them would get together to drink fruit juice instead.

Only quote the insults from Shakespeare's works.

Wash your hair in beer. (Just trust me. My great grandmother washed her hair with beer, and she had great hair.)

Berets

Black velvet (whilst usually more goth) can definitely be adopted.

Know that 'modern' or 'new' doesn't necessarily mean 'better'.

Go to protests, talks, lectures, anywhere where you might be able to make a difference. Say something about anything you feel passionately about, don't stand for things you feel are wrong.

towards a gentle academic

be up front and honest about the things you do not know

acknowledge the intrinsic value of others’ knowledge bases, even if they do not seem important to you from your institutional context

do not feign mastery where you have none

respect the gaps in others’ knowledge bases

be generous, not only with others

but also with yourself

you overwork yourself at the risk of legitimizing a culture of overwork

privilege voices and perspectives that have historically been left out of the academy

nothing is ever neutral or apolitical

support the progress of other scholars

collaboration over competition

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urnihilistgirlfriend

5 years ago

There are only two moods : hedonism and romantic longing.

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urnihilistgirlfriend

7 months ago

LUCILLE CLIFTON

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urnihilistgirlfriend

6 years ago

a human heart cost $442,000 & I gave you mine for free you ungrateful bitch

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urnihilistgirlfriend

6 years ago

Awesome Knot Theory video. Enjoy!

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urnihilistgirlfriend

6 years ago

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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urnihilistgirlfriend

4 years ago

🐱 Studio Ghibli + Cats 🐈

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urnihilistgirlfriend

3 years ago

everyone from my high school is living their best lives. i, on the other hand, became an anarchist

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urnihilistgirlfriend

5 years ago

ben wyatt is the only man in my life that’s never disappointed me

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