Sheer Genius (Zombies Meet Cylons via PoliSci Edition)
Steven L. Taylor
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Friday, April 1, 2011
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If you have any familiarity with Dan Drezner’s new book, Theories of International Politics and Zombies and/or with IR theory, you have to watch this.
Who says polisci profs have no fun at conferences? (Although there has been nothing so amusing at the conference I am currently attending).
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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mostly it just drove home how “the most interesting panel” in polisci is still meaningless tripe. Seriously the whole argument sounded like a bad grad student paper where polysyllabic words are spewed out in a vain attempt to disguise the fact that the author is an idiot.
@Tlaloc,
It’s what one calls “humor.” Granted, it takes a certain background knowledge to get the joke, both in terms of IR and scifi.
But again: humor.
Yeah I get that but they’re also trying to make an underlying serious argument, the problem is there’s just no surrounding intellectual framework so the whole thing is just a jumbled mass of buzzwords and attempts to obfuscate.
How in the world can a video of this nature be an attempt to “obfuscate” anything?
I had to purchase this immediately.