Hit the books -- it's time to get stupid.
Occidental College's course catalog offers a 100-level class called Stupidity.
In the course catalog, Stupidity 180 is described as a "philosophical examination of those operations and technologies that we conduct in order to render ourselves uncomprehending." It examines the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and Avital Ronell.
The class is offered as part of Occidental's Critical Theory and Social Justice program.
Here's the full course desription:
Stupidity is neither ignorance nor organicity, but rather, a corollary of knowing and an element of normalcy, the double of intelligence rather than its opposite. It is an artifact of our nature as finite beings and one of the most powerful determinants of human destiny. Stupidity is always the name of the Other, and it is the sign of the feminine. This course in Critical Psychology follows the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and most recently, Avital Ronell, in a philosophical examination of those operations and technologies that we conduct in order to render ourselves uncomprehending. Stupidity, which has been evicted from the philosophical premises and dumbed down by psychometric psychology, has returned in the postmodern discourse against Nation, Self, and Truth and makes itself felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beevis and Butthead. This course examines stupidity.
Occidental College is about seven miles north of downtown LA in Eagle Rock.
President Barack Obama attended Occidental College from fall 1979 through spring 1981. The future president then transferred to Columbia University in New York.
