Dissertations as tweets

Something light(er)-weight for the weekend – an entertaining, but also thought-provoking article from The New Yorker.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/all-possible-humanities-dissertations-considered-as-single-tweets

It condenses into tweets all possible angles taken on research by academic theses. I find these two particularly amusing:

A problem you thought you could solve defines your field; you can’t imagine the field without the problem.

The name we’ve been using for this stuff is anachronistic. Here’s a better name.

It’s a bit like the seven plots theory in literature…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3632074/Everything-ever-written-boiled-down-to-seven-plots.html

🙂

Magda