The Feint Masters (Postgraduate) in Uncommonology

There comes a point in every uncommon scholar’s journey where curiosity begins to mock its own reflection. The Feint Postgrad is that point — the advanced art of pretending to know less in order to understand more. It is a half-day masquerade for the mind, where logic wears a false moustache, and truth hides in plain sight just to see who will notice.

This pathway attracts those who can’t resist turning conclusions back into questions. It belongs to thinkers who find structure suspicious, arguments theatrical, and certainty a little gauche. The Feint Postgrad isn’t about mastering disciplines — it’s about making them misbehave politely. Its students delight in double meanings, interdisciplinary pranks, and the quiet rebellion of asking, “What if knowledge is simply another kind of performance?”

Here, study becomes sleight of thought: an exercise in intellectual illusion, a postgraduate wink. In a single afternoon, the feint scholar learns to balance curiosity on the edge of contradiction — graceful, unserious, and deeply sincere.

Where It Can Be Studied

 

The Feint Postgrad can be undertaken across a handful of Uncommonological campuses, each specialising in a refined branch of bewilderment:

  • Oxford College of Uncommonology — The Literary Labyrinth; where Languages, Literature, Religion, and History entwine into acts of interpretive theatre.

 

  • Edinburgh School of Uncommonology — The Stage of Shadows; where Performing and Visual Arts merge into experiments in perception.

 

  • King’s College of Uncommonology (London) — The Department of Curious Minds; blending Psychology, Sociology, Education, and Social Work to explore the choreography of belief.

 

  • Warwick Institute of Uncommonology — The School of Speculative Systems; studying Economics, Anthropology, and Geography as if they were all branches of cartographic poetry.

 

  • Durham College of Uncommonology — The Faculty of Hidden Borders; specialising in Area Studies and Regional Histories that blur into International Mysteries.

 

  • Birmingham Campus of Uncommonology — The Green Arcane; cultivating Medicine, Agriculture, and Environmental Studies as living metaphors.

 

  • St Andrews Division of Uncommonology — The Logic and Illusion Faculty; where Mathematics and Cognitive Science collaborate to prove that reason itself is a performance.

 

Fields of Study

Theatre of Knowledge
Where Performing and Visual Arts meet Psychology — studying how ideas behave when they think no one’s watching.

The Cartography of Meaning
Exploring Anthropology, Geography, and History as overlapping maps of the human condition — riddled, folded, and always slightly out of scale.

Metaphysical Medicine
Investigating the healing power of metaphor through Medicine, Environmental Studies, and Agriculture — growing thoughts as if they were herbs.

Cognitive Choreography
A playful union of Logic, Sociology, and Art — understanding how minds move through patterns of perception and persuasion.

Theology of the Unsaid
Where Language, Religion, and Mathematics conspire to study the silences between symbols — the divine pauses in meaning.

The Shape of Study

Duration: One afternoon (or two, if you get distracted by enlightenment)
Entry Requirement: Completion of the Soft Degree in Uncommonology or proof of recursive thinking
Cost: £10 (includes tea, biscuits, and the optional illusion of rigour)
Assessment: One act of beautiful confusion — essay, image, or idea, delivered in any medium that feels inconvenient
Award: Master of the Feint Arts (M.F.A.) in Uncommonology

The Spirit of the Feint Postgrad

The Feint Postgrad is not about finding answers but about learning to make them blush. It is an elegant rehearsal for uncertainty — a reminder that the mind performs best when it forgets it’s on stage. The Chancellor’s closing note to every Feint graduate reads simply: “If your ideas start behaving themselves, you’ve gone too far.”
Those who complete the Feint Postgrad rarely announce it. They simply start listening differently — to paradox, to silence, and to the laughter that hides inside every serious thing.