A fellow blogger and regular commenter here, elkement, recently published some search term poetry. WordPress keeps track of all the search terms that people use to find your blog and some of them are quite entertaining. Elkement came up with the brilliant idea of artfully arranging these search terms, creating a sort of crowd-sourced poetry. Very postmodern! She’s inspired me to take a crack at it too. I’m not sure how artful these are, but at least there’s some thematic unity.
heidegger representation visualized
unemployed existentialist
derrida works
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unemployed philosophy graduate
existential frustration is not pathological
is there a stigma attached to dropping out of a phd
leaving academia philosophy
how can logotherapy help the unemployed
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philosophers welfare state
rawls principle of ignorance
maximize the minimum because you never know where you will end up
does rawls like welfare
ayn rand philosophy who needs it
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american dream and pursuit of happiness today and yesterday
should a person pursue happiness?
eudaimonia
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conflicted about eating meat
pro carnivore arguments
deontology eating meat
what animal can be a carnivore
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academia like a sect
harvard divinity school academic hoods?
cult of academia
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philosophy hero james bond
best bond movie to do a philosophy essay on
skyfall philosophy
As elkement points out, there’s an intellectual property question here. Who owns this poetry? The original searchers? Google? Me? But the authorship question only adds to the already postmodern flavor of this exercise. As Derrida told us, the author is dead. I guess that means there’s no plagiarism, no copyright, and no intellectual property. Only ideas floating in cyberspace. It would be fun to sort out the philosophical implications of that concept. I’ll leave the task of sorting out the practicalities of this brave new world to the lawyers.
I did expect that your search term would make extremely sophisticated poetry – but this exceeds all my expectations! This is also where the similarities between the humanities and physics end: Your blog postings provide way better raw material than mine.
You should add to your list of potential career paths to take a closer look at:
“Art for Hire – professional philosopher turns you search term babble into art”. Clients should pay some fixed percentage of their revenue from selling published poetry to you. Or you are paid X € per search term.
Thanks! I had fun with this. Like they say ‘you can’t make this stuff up.’ I should definitely add poetry to my list of potential careers. If I’m successful, I’d be willing to cut you in for a percentage since it was your idea
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