Cambalache Austral: An interesting postmodern article

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

An interesting postmodern article

I think some of you might find this article interesting. Shaun?

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

JP

5 comments:

La Chounie said...: Ah yes, it is an absolute classic!!!!! It is called the Post-modern generator. You refresh the page and a brand new totally randon nonsense paper is generated. And the writing is almost indistinguishable from a 'so-called' legitimate piece of pomo writing. Trust a 'prictorian' to think of something like that up!; January 17, 2008 at 8:32 AM
Huinca said...: I liked this one:
'material dematerialism'

It's an excellent reference to argue with my sister.; January 17, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Juan said...: La Chounie ya lo conocía...
no lo puedo sorprender con nada!; January 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM
La Chounie said...: I was aware of it due to the 'Sokal Affair'. A few years back now a pomo journal named 'Social Text' accepted for publication a paper by a scientist named Prof Alan Sokal. The paper was complete nonsense. It is very amusing and embarrassing for the Editors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair

Richard Dawkins had a famous quote along the lines of, 'the editors of 'Social Text' must have had that same queasy feeling the Trojans had the morning after they wheeled in that giant gift-horse.

Academic humor, you cant beat it!; January 17, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Juan said...: yes!!

on the same line, the SCIgen program generates a similar nonsense article in computer science. The guys who invented it (from the MIT) keep sending, and getting abstracts and papers accepted, to computer-science conferences. They even managed to have a whole session running with fake papers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen
and
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/; January 17, 2008 at 6:25 PM

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