"Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’" II: The Video

I'd say that this is obviously a joke, but you can never tell with these people. One of the distinctions they often want to "deconstruct" is that between joking and being serious.

   Needless to say, there's nothing wrong with deadpan humor.

   IRL, I'm often accused of this myself.

   Thing is, this bullshit is rampant, the papers are published with apparent seriousness in serious places, and it has genuine impact on teaching and research. Generations of grad students have been raised to take such nonsense seriously...

   And it's genuinely funny...if you can get over your sense of revulsion...

   Also, I think they say that one of the people involved in the "wedding" is "Annie Sprinkle"...who I'm pretty sure is a pr0n star...though, believe it or not, I am unfamiliar with her oeuvre...

Anyway:

I'm not sure you're ready for this.

Last night I posted an insane academic paper titled "Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’."

That paper included a section near the end where the author claimed, via… pic.twitter.com/DMexzjGnc3

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) November 26, 2024