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Sheer Genius (Zombies Meet Cylons via PoliSci Edition)

Steven L. Taylor
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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).

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5 responses to “Sheer Genius (Zombies Meet Cylons via PoliSci Edition)”

  1. Tlaloc Avatar
    Tlaloc

    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.

  2. Steven L. Taylor Avatar
    Steven L. Taylor

    @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.

  3. Tlaloc Avatar
    Tlaloc

    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.

  4. Steven L. Taylor Avatar
    Steven L. Taylor

    How in the world can a video of this nature be an attempt to “obfuscate” anything?

  5. Ryan Spires Avatar
    Ryan Spires

    I had to purchase this immediately.

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