The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined By Science)
1. Fine Arts
3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design
5. Architecture
6. Philosophy and Religious Studies
7. English Literature and Language
8. Journalism
9. Anthropology and Archeology
11. Music
12. History
13. Political Science and Government
(Ed: Your primary tumblrs majored in two of these and now work in the field of a third.)
“As Determined By Science”
(we’re really obsessed with “usefulness”)
Note that the “useless” subjects are the ones that might be most helpful (or useful?) to marginalized people for examining/understanding/representing/contesting their position in the social structure.
Usefulness is the state. Being/doing uselessness as praxis.
REMEMBER when we were talking about affective registers of capitalism
yeah. this. the injunction to be useful, productive, valuable, tradeable, commodifiable, etc. like, seriously, are we sad about something newsweek said? we gonna let newsweek tell us how to live our lives? tell us we’re useless? newsweek is obviously the state and assigning prescriptive (negative) value to areas of study (when what you’re talking about is employability in an always-already-fucked job market) is just how capitalism wants you to feel.
tl;dr: NEWSWEEK/CAPITAL IS NOT THE DAD OF WHAT I STUDY/HOW I FEEL
“Note that the “useless” subjects are the ones that might be most helpful (or useful?) to marginalized people for examining/understanding/representing/contesting their position in the social structure.”
“Note that the “useless” subjects are the ones that might be most helpful (or useful?) to marginalized people for examining/understanding/representing/contesting their position in the social structure. “
“Note that the “useless” subjects are the ones that might be most helpful (or useful?) to marginalized people for examining/understanding/representing/contesting their position in the social structure.
