Thursday, 2 November 2006

The dialectic paradigm of discourse

Postmodern Gibberish
This is a great website which prints out randomly generated postmodern gibberish in the form of a learned text, complete with footnotes. An excerpt follows:

Prestructural dematerialism in the works of Stone
Wilhelm N. Long
Department of Politics, University of California, Berkeley

1. The dialectic paradigm of discourse and submodern nihilism In the works of Stone, a predominant concept is the distinction between closing and opening. Thus, if prestructural dematerialism holds, the works of Stone are reminiscent of Lynch. The subject is interpolated into a cultural theory that includes culture as a whole. Lyotard uses the term 'submodern nihilism' to denote a semioticist reality. The primary theme of the works of Stone is the paradigm, and eventually the fatal flaw, of semantic society. It could be said that Marx suggests the use of prestructural dematerialism to challenge sexism. D'Erlette[1]states that we have to choose between neocapitalist narrative and cultural discourse. But any number of theories concerning the bridge between consciousness and sexual identity may be revealed.
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1. d'Erlette, U. C. (1983) The Economy of Context: Cultural theory in the works of Pynchon. Schlangekraft

There must be some fun that can be had out of this with pretentious people.

Spoke to my friend Lori whom I hadn't heard from in ages. Glad to hear that she's doing well and life is improving for her.

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