Week 9 Session: Tutorial 9: fake-deep clinic
Week 9's tutorial — an ungraded clinic testing the fake-deep grammar from lecture against real questions
19 April 2027
No submission this week. Week 9’s lecture named the grammar of sounding profound — this session is where that grammar gets pointed at your own work and asked to justify itself.
In the session#
- everyone brings one paragraph and reads it cold, no framing
- the room asks the single most deflating question it can find
- a running tally of which rhetorical moves survive scrutiny and which don’t
Afterwards#
Nothing is due, but whatever survives this session is worth carrying into week 10, where the same test gets run against real philosophy instead of each other.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you attend and bring one paragraph that sounds profound
- you leave knowing which parts of it survive a direct question
Teaching team
- Fae k. Corsa — tutor