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dark academia for business majors

the jpeg of dorian gray

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I love when my history classes just devolve into me and my classmate A the commie and my classmate D the brown girl infodumping about all the shit rich and influential people have done.

Today’s edition: Mahatma Gandhi and the pedophilia and antisemitism, and Elon Musk and the ethics of wealth and his involvement in coups  executed by the American government.

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oop there it is

godd i just hate the idea of academia as an aesthetic so much . we’re out here trying to demystify scholarship and destroy the image of classics as this sacred, elistist, mysterious subject n people are like no we’d rather think about the idea, the feeling, the persona of academia rather than actually engage in analytical, scholarly thinking or any self-reflexive critiscism of the way that imagery and aesthetics help perpetuate an elitist ideal deeply rooted in classism and colonialism im not saying that dark academia is inherently problematic or that classics students are oppressed bc youre fetishising our degree or anything but like . i swear to god if i see another post thats like ‘how to be more dark academic’ im going to eat my computer

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DID SOMEONE SAY KAFKA

i’m currently reading the metamorphosis

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Are you kidding me. Seriously, fuck Disney. They buy out a studio just to shut them down and now we’re going to be deprived of a movie that could have been incredible. Blue Sky was about to make a movie adaptation of Noelle Stevenson’s comic Nimona, a creative and wonderful story with LGBT leads and a unique style. This is why I don’t trust Disney; they take over everything and shut down any sort of progress that doesn’t fit their money-making agenda. Capitalism breeds innovation my ass.

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college is catered towards the able bodied and able minded. school applauds people who can stay up all night, skip meals, and work endlessly. that kind of extreme contribution is expected. why are disabled people being squeezed out of academic institutions? why should I feel inferior because of some arbitrary and ridiculous standard?

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We really used to ask teachers if we could drink water.......what the fuck was that

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Watching academia conversations when you attend and have a degree from an African university is bizarre because the eurocentricity makes me think wow… have you guys heard… the word decolonisation…

(Also lol this is not everybody just the popular posts on the dark ac tag but really.)

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Subtext: The unstated implications of a text, as understood by a particular interpreter.

Paratext: Other stuff by the same author that you drag up in order to support your interpretation of the subtext.

Intertext: Stuff by other authors that you drag up in order to support your interpretation of the subtext.

Supertext: Those little authorial asides where they explicitly tell you how you’re supposed to interpret the subtext.

Infratext: Subtext that nobody picked up on because it was too deep for them.

Quasitext: Elements of the text you could have sworn were present because you’re getting two similar works mixed up.

Semitext: The text as it’s popularly remembered.

Pseudotext: What that one guy on the Internet claims the subtext is.

Metatext: Your interpretation of the subtext, itself considered as a text to be interpreted.

Texttext: The text.

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Why is it whenever ppl bring up things that have colonial implications or a history within colonialism, people get like reaaaally pissy about it & act like we're makin shit up to ruin their fun just for like. Talking about something that hurt us & still does

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You guys know when your brain feels like it won't shut up and it's buzzing and flickering like crazy but every time you try to reach in there and find out what it's thinking about it's just singing Peas Porridge Hot real loud

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Every time someone reblogs this post I take one d8′s worth of psychic damage

im creating a subgenre of dark academia called grey academia. less classism and less subtle racism. less drugs and alcohol. less wildly expensive colleges and clothes. still with the biting chill of the autumn wind. instead of tweed and carefully pressed suits it’s denim jackets, flannel, and combat boots. everyone carries sketchbooks where they can draw in their long droning classes or write down quick notes or ramble about their feelings. everyone fights to make academia more accessible to the masses. everything is vaguely punk rock and no one dies

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Thingymajiggys auf Deutsch!

aller guten Dinge sind drei! - all good things come in threes / the third time is the charm

das ist nicht jedermanns Sache - not everyone’s cup of tea

das ist ja ein Ding! - well, that’s something!

kommen wir doch zur Sache! - let’s get to the point

das Dingsbums - the thingymajig

das Gedöns - kerfuffle, clutter, fuss

Gedöns sammeln - to collect clutter

mach doch nicht so’n Gedöns! - don’t make such a fuss about it!

auf Dinge verzichten - to give things up / do without something

jedes Ding hat zwei Seiten - everything has two sides

von allen Dingen dieser Welt - out of everything in this world

über den Dingen stehen - to be above it all

über solchen Dingen stehen - to be above such things

es gehört zu den Dingen… - it’s one of those things

den guten Dingen nachjagen - to aim for the good things in life

so eine Sache - a thing like that

eine gewagte Sache - a risky business

eine gute Sache zunichtemachen - to ruin a good thing

das ist nicht my Ding - that’s not really my thing

gemeinsame Sache machen - to join forces, be in cahoots with someone

nicht ganz bei der Sache sein - to be absent-minded, not really with it

bei der Sache bleiben - to keep on task

sich seiner Sache sicher sein - to be sure of yourself / what you’re doing (try saying this with a mouthful of marshmallows)

die Sache ist die, dass… - yeah the thing is that…

das ist eine Sache von 5 Minuten - we can get that done in 5 minutes / piece of cake

das Maß aller Dinge - the measure of all things

eine ganz andere Sache - another matter altogether

seine Sache ganz gut machen - to get it about right

der springende Punkt bei der Sache - the crux of the matter

ich trau der Sache doch nicht - I don’t like the look of it

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no offence but there is literally nothing morally wrong with cheating on tests/at school… it’s up there with piracy on the list of Crimes Everyone Is Convinced Are Wrong And Harmful But If You Actually Think About Them For 12 Seconds It’s Fine And You Definitely Should Commit Them At Some Point

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Keep up the good fight for the soul of grey academia!!!

The soul of grey academia is very tired and wants to get everyone the fuck off of tumblr and go take a walk instead.

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To follow up my last text post on wlw in Dark Academia, we need more POCs in Dark Academia. I don’t know how to stress enough that DA is not just for white people, and people of any race and ethnicity can take part. As a POC myself (I’m Latina) I’m well aware that there’s a lot of classism and a history or Eurocentrism in Academia itself, but DA will always be inclusive to POCs. There are many POCs that enjoy the Dark Academia aesthetic, even though it can be incredibly whitewashed. 

If you’re a POC that engages with DA or takes part in it in any way, know that I see you, and you are valid (I honestly shouldn’t even have to say it because you should know that of course you are, but if you needed a reminder, there it is). You do not have to be white to enjoy DA, no matter what anyone else may say. Dark Academia has an uncanny habit of romanticizing thin white people, and not offering the same status or visibility to POCs, and that’s something that we should fight to change. POCs deserve to be seen, acknowledged, and given important roles in DA books and movies just as much as white people. 

The different learning experiences and different vibrant cultures of many POCs should be taken into account in DA. Each culture presents something new and different in knowledge and in their works. Consume works made by POCs. Read books in other languages if you can. Learn about other cultures, and if you are a POC yourself, don’t be afraid to incorporate parts of your culture into DA. Knowledge should always come from many different sources, and we as academics should not be limiting ourselves to only European works when great knowledge, art and literature comes from many different places; lest we become the ignorant ones who refuse to see beyond our own tiny sphere of only European academia. 

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I feel like this person took one look at grey academia and decided not to talk to any of us before making this post

academia types ✨✨

dark academia: you have 3 copies of to Kill a Mockingbird, you won’t shut up your current obsession, you were too shy to answer questions in class even though you knew every answer. despite being super capable, you still wing a lot of tasks. also self-care but make it ~ edgy ~.

light academia: you’re the teachers pet, but like in a good way? you probably tried to learn an instrument like the flute in school but haven’t played it since, always holding iced coffee, works way better in an Organised Study Group with like minded pals.

pastel academia: all the coloured highlighters imaginable, and the neatest handwriting? studying anywhere BUT their room (cute café yes please), if you’re nice to them they will fall in love with you, you probably haven’t seen their natural hair colour.

grey academia: takes lots of notes but can they read them?, cried listening to Greta Thunberg in 1975’s song, “gender is a social construct”, surprisingly good at time management, probably short and angry, constantly trying to tell their parents how to be “woke.”

classic academia: your cat is your best friend, always dreamt about having a bookstore café when you were older, definitely participating in goodreads reading challenge, you shock friends on your ability to always sleep on time, quiet until people get to know you (and discover you’re ~quirky~)

science academia: you are not capable of liking things casually: it’s all or nothing, constantly complaining about how difficult your subjects are but knowing this is exactly what you want to do, well practiced at pulling all-nighters, probably got some sort of nerdy/edgy tattoo.