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FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 10:27 PM

I love this:

www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/

Postmodernism generator; refresh the page to get a new article each time.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 9:16 AM

>From: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Postmodernism
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:23:34 -0500
>
>I love this:
>
>www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/
>

Gobbledygook! <g>

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FROM: [removed]@juno.com
REC'D: 1/25/03, 1:25 PM

>www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/

>Postmodernism generator; refresh the page to get a new article each time.

This reminds of of Alan Sokal! He's the physicist who, a few years ago, sent an entire article of this kind of gobbledigook to the journal "Social Text", purportedly proving that the law of gravity was merely a late-capitalist patriarchal semantic construct, or something like that. They published it, to their later embarrassment, since he announced shortly afterward that it was a hoax (and kindly invited anyone who believed its conclusions to prove it by stepping out of an upper-story window).

Sokal's webpage at www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/ includes many links to pages dealing with "The Social Text Affair". By definition, hoaxes are fiction, so I think I'm still on topic here, although I may be getting close to the edge.

Bradley A. Scott, post-postmodernist antidecontextualizer
Northern Michigan University

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/27/03, 10:46 AM

At 07:20 PM 1/25/03 GMT, you wrote:
>>www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/
>
>>Postmodernism generator; refresh the page to get a new article each time.
>
>This reminds of of Alan Sokal! <snip>

As it should, as Sokal's webpage on the Social Text Affair that you
cited is also linked from the Postmodernism Generator page...

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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