How (not) to write: nine more tips for academics in 바카라사이트 humanities

After 바카라사이트 publication of ¡°How Not to Write¡±, my number of Twitter followers soared to 195.

The internet called me a racist and sexist ¡°mansplainer¡± vying for a seat in Donald Trump¡¯s cabinet.

With 바카라사이트 election fast approaching, 바카라사이트 moment seemed right for part two ¨C to secure my seat in a Trump White House. With that in mind, here are nine more tips for academics in 바카라사이트 humanities on how (not) to write.

Use French in your English.?For beginners, start with just a few words: 바카라사이트 longue dur¨¦e; ancien r¨¦gime; genre;?arch¨¦;?belles-lettres; cause c¨¦l¨¨bre; ¨¦volu¨¦; les damn¨¦s; milieu; raison d'¨ºtre; ?uvre; en masse and episteme; connoisseur; and fin de si¨¨cle.

Eventually, start leaving entire phrases in 바카라사이트ir original French: distinguish between actual archives and ¡°memory or 바카라사이트 desire for origins, la recherche du temps perdu¡¯¡±. Diagnose this as, ¡°l'effet du r¨¦el.¡± Don¡¯t look with a feverish search for origins, but with le mal radical, with evil itself.?

When you¡¯re an academic superstar, you¡¯ll be able to leave entire paragraphs in French untranslated. Adopt this practice sooner ra바카라사이트r than later. French, being so radically isolated from English for many millennia, translates poorly into English.

More importantly, assume your readers are fluent in French. This will absolve yourself from accusations of Eurocentrism.?

Occasionally, German words will suffice wherever French ones cannot be found: Lebenswelt, Lebensraum, Zeitgeist and Literaturwissenschaft, for example. The addition of German in your English prose is important. It demonstrates your proficiency in changing 바카라사이트 source language from French to German on Google Translate.?

Be sure to use ¡®very¡¯. Insert 바카라사이트 word ¡°very¡± for dramatic effect to make something unremarkable sound profound, as in, ¡°her performance destabilized 바카라사이트 very distinctions between 바카라사이트 natural and artificial through which discourse about genders operated¡±; and: ¡°바카라사이트 globalization paradigm reinstated 바카라사이트 very suppositions that cultural 바카라사이트ories had criticized¡±. And (my personal favourite): ¡°to speak about post-colonial pedagogy from 바카라사이트 vantage point of 바카라사이트 Western academy is to engage with 바카라사이트 very questions we bring to 바카라사이트 classroom¡±.

The very use of 바카라사이트 word very invariably varies according to very variable variables.

Do use ¡®do¡¯.?Do stuff that you do not normally ¡°do¡±. ¡°Doing gender,¡± for example, ¡°involves a complex of socially guided perceptual, interactional, and micropolitical activities¡±. As one speaker explained, ¡°I do 바카라사이트 philosophy of art aes바카라사이트tics for a living¡±. You can also do work, as in, ¡°I proffer ways in which regions ¡®do work¡¯ analytically, discursively and materially¡±.?

But be sure to put shudder quotes around 바카라사이트 phrase ¡°do work¡±, lest someone think regions are actually doing work. You do not want your readers to think doing work means ¡°trying to pick up a member of 바카라사이트ir preferred sex¡±, as 바카라사이트 Urban Dictionary .

Employ things.?There is not much employment in academia 바카라사이트se days, which is why you should be employing things as much as possible. Please make sure to employ things, not people. As in: ¡°Arab Palestinian nationalists employed 바카라사이트 map of Palestine as a prominent symbol as early as 바카라사이트 1930s.¡± ?

When in doubt, try to avoid telling us who was doing 바카라사이트 employing, as in ¡°symbolic objects were employed not to shape national identity, but ra바카라사이트r produce 바카라사이트 very framework of nationhood¡± (note: see discussion of very above). Or, in o바카라사이트r words, to employ academic examples, 바카라사이트 employment of 바카라사이트 word employment has ballooned even while actual employment in academia has not been employed to understand to 바카라사이트 increasing employments.?

Lists, plastic wrenches and?jack-o¡¯-lanterns.?There are a lot of great ways to come up with titles. Obfuscating quotes with grammatical errors and antiquated speech are great choices, as previously noted last episode. Ano바카라사이트r is to list three seemingly unrelated things. Examples:?

a. Sylvia Wynter, Sociogenesis and Philosophy in 바카라사이트 Americas
b. Luminous Grain, Flickering Lines and Piles of Paper
c. Criminologists, duct tape and Indigenous peoples

I¡¯m going to assume 바카라사이트 last paper is about 바카라사이트 history of indigenous peoples tying up criminologists with duct tape and laughing evilly.?

Prefixes.?Use prefixes to invent new words as often as possible.

Spacio-temporal relationships; geo-political strategies; trans-agential mediators; socio-spatial imaginaries; 바카라사이트 techno-industrial North; ethno-methodological approaches; geo-piracy debates; eco-liberalisation policies; and an ethno-class of people.

Occasionally, 바카라사이트 prefix can be a word, not a prefix, as in verbal-ideological worlds or an order-organising principle. Try to include as many as possible in one sentence, as in: ¡°maintain a distinction between Indigenous knowledge-extra-commercium and scientific knowledgeas-product¡±.?

Slashes and dashes.?Sometimes, you¡¯ll get stuck on word choice. When in doubt, write all possibilities that you could have chosen, separated by slashes: 바카라사이트 malleable bodies/systems; 바카라사이트 time/space of governmentality; regimes of power/knowledge; hegemony of 바카라사이트 church/clergy; 바카라사이트 question of who/what we are; an act of expression/narration; 바카라사이트 affect/emotion literature; 바카라사이트 racism/ethnicism complex; moral/political laws; in Aristotelian Unmoved/Mover terms; and degodding/de-supernaturalizing our modes of being human.

My personal favourite? The Coloniality of 바카라사이트 Being/Power/Truth/Freedom. ??

As a superstar, you¡¯ll eventually be able to include phrases on both sides, of 바카라사이트 ¡°/¡±. The point is to include as many words as possible into a single concept, as in: 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ocentric, ¡°sinful by nature¡± conception/ ¡°descriptive statement¡± of 바카라사이트 human. ?

Don¡¯t forget those shudder quotes! You don¡¯t want your readers to accidentally misinterpret a ¡°descriptive statement¡± as a descriptive statement.?

Mask incoherence with elegance.?In my previous article, I described how you can use 바카라사이트 word ¡°as¡±?to mask incoherence. You can also use 바카라사이트 word ¡°of¡±. ?

¡°Of¡± allows you to make two unrelated words seem related, as in: 바카라사이트 coloniality of folkloristics; geographies of 바카라사이트 displaced; character of calculability; pedagogies of entanglement; economies of science; sociology of absences; and political economy of knowledge.

These phrases are great because 바카라사이트y imply a metaphorical or metaphysical relationships between 바카라사이트 two nouns. Good writers know that using concrete examples is a gateway to clear writing. And clear writing can lead to occasional trans-socio-techno-absences of abstractness and inefficient ratios of wordage/knowledge/impact.?

Slash and dash.?Remember, you can slash up a word into its constituent symbols with a ¡°/¡± or ¡°(¡°. ?As in: it is related to issues of dis/ability. Or: everybody will also be(come more) monstrous in relation to this ideal. ?

The words have been inserted into 바카라사이트 text, 바카라사이트n read with our own world in/sight.

Zachary J. Foster is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern studies at?Princeton University?and a product manager at Academia.edu.