What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Live Bullshitting: A Demonstration Performed Without Preparation
Week 1 — the convenor bullshits an entire lecture live and unprepared, so the room can identify afterwards, cold, exactly what worked
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Thinking Abstractly: Everything Is a Metaphor for Something Else
Week 2 — abstraction as a bullshitting technique, built on Mednick's claim that connecting remote ideas is a trainable skill, not a gift
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Abstract Thinking, Demonstrated on Whatever Was on the Lecturer's Desk
Week 3 — last week's theory of remote association, applied live to a problem nobody in the room actually understands, including the presenter
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
The Toolbelt: LLMs, Agents and Other Ways to Not Be the Author
Week 4 — a survey of everything that lets you start an assignment the night before it is due and still hand in something with a straight face
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Tools in Anger: One Assignment, Forty Minutes, Zero Remorse
Week 5 — last week's toolkit under an actual clock, live, with every failure left in the recording
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Midsemester Revision (Revising What, Exactly?)
Week 6 — revision reframed as re-prompting for an oral exam that rewards confident delivery over correct content
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Satire Out of Anything I: The Rubric Is a Text
Week 7 — the midsem is over, so it's time to read a marking rubric as satirical material rather than as an obstacle
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Satire Out of Anything II: Punching Up, Sideways, and at the Marker
Week 8 — delivering last week's target, deadpan, with an escalation that knows exactly where to stop
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Fake Deep I: The Philosophy of Critique
Week 9 — sounding profound as its own skill, and why vagueness reads as depth long before anyone checks for content
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Fake Deep II: Say "Liminal" and Watch Them Nod
Week 10 — producing and detecting pseudo-profundity in the same session, including the moment it stops working
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Genuine Attempts: A Controlled Experiment in Effort
Week 11 — the twist ending, where the course asks you to actually do the thing it spent ten weeks teaching you to fake
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Exam Revision: The Oral Is Just Talking
Week 12 — revision for a final oral, delivered with the same confidence as week 1 and, this time, some of the same content
Week 12 · 10 May 2027