Amusements

It is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's more lucid thoughts that it is perhaps not altogether sensible to see the world as being ineluctably serious. So in a spirit of rapprochement with French thought - or at least this particular French thought - we offer up our amusements section.

Fashionable Dictionary
Your guide to the language of pseudoscience and fashionable nonsense. Written by woolly-thinkers for woolly thinkers. A must read for post-modernists, dialectical biologists, Gaia theorists and Freudians.

The Woolly-Thinker's Guide to Rhetoric
Top tips for besting your enemies. As employed by the best woolly-thinkers around. Learn, for example: how to play the 'biological reductionist' card to maximum effect; how 'language games' can help you out of a sticky situation; and how lucky it is that 'truth' is relative to particular discourses (especially yours).

Quotations
'Let them speak for themselves', is a cry frequently heard on our city streets. Who are we to resist the will of the people? We had no choice but to put together a quotations section.

Euphemisms and Obfuscations
Renaming and Relabelling. How to speak so that you don't offend.

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