Yes, I'm narcissistic and reposted this from my Facebook wall. I figure if I'm procrastinating, I might as well help others do so as well.
I also just got back from Austria, but I'm saving that post for tomorrow's procrastination since it's liable to take some time. In effect, I am procrastinating on procrastinating. OR DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?
The following are examples of study guide questions for my Holocaust and Memory test tomorrow:
1. What are the differences between the eschatological and scholarly interpretations? Where is the overlap?
The difference is that "scholarly" is actually a word and "eschatological" is one made up by a drunken college student who fell asleep after looking up the word "eschew" in the dictionary.
2. Singularity and incomprehensibility of Holocaust were challenged by micro-history and post-structuralism. Summarise their arguments!
I would love to "summarise" their arguments, but to me, micro-history is what happens when you study the Bacterial Renaissance and post-structuralism means somewhere, somehow, a construction project was actually completed.
3. What is the basis of relativism born on singularity?
Um...6?
4. What is the Hilberg School? What is the advantage and disadvantage of their approach? What is the synchronic and diachronic focus?
The Hilberg School is an exclusive prep school somewhere on Long Island with the focus of teaching young Jews how to make up words like "synchronic" and "diachronic" so, if they don't make it to law school, they can default to literary criticism.
5. Hayden White and Lyotard… what difficulties do they encounter? What are the consequences of demanding unrepresentability?
I imagine Lyotard encountered difficulties by virtue of being named after a one-piece gymnastics outfit.
6. Evaluate the question: “how should one negotiate transferential relations to the object of study whereby processes active in that object are repeated with more or less significant variations on the account of historians?”
I give this question a 0 for clarity and a 10 for pretentiousness, with a -1 penalty for relying on made-up words like "transferential."
7. Define the consequences of symbolic and metaphoric obsessions?
Symbolic and metaphoric obsessions (n.): A disease originating with one Dr. Smith of Montgomery Blair HS. Consequences include horrible makeup and second-hand narcolepsy (when everyone around you falls asleep).
8. What is the concept of transcendence of Nolte and how does contribute to the revisionist interpretation?
"Transcendence of Nolte" refers to a person's ability to forgive Nick Nolte's appearance in "Hulk" and acknowledge that he is actually quite a good actor. Only revisionists could think "Hulk" anything but ridiculous.
Am I prepared for this test or what? *math-major-suicide*
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