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It's exactly like engineering, except not. The point is to use whatever faddish ideology is in vogue amongst the tenured faculty to make something "new" by smashing up two completely irrelevant authors and claiming the result has semiotic relevance. No one will actually read it; the faculty will skim for buzzwords and grade on personality; the student does it only for grades. The result will be lost due to bitrot and will live on only in anti-plagarism detection engines.
You know how everyone has a startup idea? "It's like Uber, but for crypto!!!" It's pretty much that, except they self-insert crypto with whatever non-in-vogue ideology they're currently enamored with (e.g. Foucault + Neoplatonism). And they can just play make-believe rather than test their findings, because everyone else is in the same boat: the production of non-falsifiable sophistry for pay.
If our author is truly successful, they may even get paid to convince others to join the bottom rung of the Ponzi scheme!