PILF

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The class Philsophy In Film and Literature is commonly called PILF, pronounced as in pilfer. One who is in the class is called a PILFer.

The Human Machine, another philosophy class more science-centered, often joined up with PILF to watch movies or for larger group discussions.

Actually a PILF - SEL discussion thing would have been interesting but our teacher was worried about how your teacher would react after the lemonade incident so we decided just to keep it cool.

PILF... what to say? How about... THE MOST AMAZING CLASS EVER!!! The instructors keep switching, so I can only speak as a student of Dr. (Scuba) Steve Benko and Meredith (the) Farmer. Here's the course description from 2005:

PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE AND FILM (Score Table B)

What is a human being? What does it mean to be human? Technological development has called into question the assumption that all humans are united by a common feature, attribute or capability. This has affected philosophy and religion, but also literature, art, anthropology, sociology, and history. Using movies, literature, and philosophical and religious writings, this course will investigate the move from humanism to posthumanism. We will come to an understanding of the various ways human nature and identity have been configured, recently reconfigured, and the consequences for ethics, culture and community. At the end of the course, students will be able to articulate a critical theory of technology that explains their own understanding of what it means to be human and takes an ethical stance towards the development and use of technology.

• Content Area: Humanities
• Offered: East Term II

Note: this class has been known to build blind belief in communism/marxism. In 2005, this sparked a feud between PILF and SEL (a class about money and capitalism). See Biddle.

[edit] Quotes from PILF 2005

Please note: The quotekeeper has pages of these, and cannot type, so she is picking her favorites.

• "You haven't seen the best of Hector!"
• "Here's your gay animal porn, kids!"
• "Goofy told me to shoot an abortion doctor."
• "HUSH PUPPIES!"
• "You know, by calling us puppies she's saying we have no soul."
• AC/DC(Tyler): Wait a second. Galen's older than me?

Galen:Actually, I'm just in a higher grade.

• "But does the scarecrow have a mind?"
• "It's not a game. It's a terrifying little universe."
• "Do you even have a cat?"
• "There's a porn addiction?"
• "If you're going to have a parrot?"
• "It's bank-robbing music." "It's called jazz..."
• "My mom: Hey, what'd you learn in class? That phone sex is exactly like computer engineering."
• "Come back when the long hand is on the 01101."
• "There are monkeys?"
• "It's kind of like philosophy hazing."
• "They should do that to babies." "Your spare battery is in a room..."
• "This makes money the universal whore and universal pimp of men and peoples, a kind of garbled language in which all human and natural qualities are scrambled and inverted, and anything can be magically transformed into anything else."
• "Philosophy tends to bring out the bad writers in people."
• "Bill Gates? Hell yeah he has autism. No normal person could have come up with that."
• Kidnap Steve's kids and raise them as modernists.
• "Is that making sense?"
• "Donna's an okay name for a les... I mean, feminist."
• The Wax.
• Steve's having a Faulknerian idiot man-child.