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1 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:32 PM PST by Commie Basher
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To: Commie Basher
The postmodern essay generator is pretty funny. Try the "Band Name" generator from the front page. I got this one after a few tries:

Ziggy Summers and the Queer Hamster Group

2 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:36 PM PST by FreeTally
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To: Commie Basher
OMG! That is waaaaaaaayyyyy too funny! Now, the best part would be if someone turned in an essay generated by the Postmodern generator to their loopy-leftie professor, and received a real grade.
3 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:36 PM PST by egarvue
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To: Commie Basher
That's great thinks for the link :)
4 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:39 PM PST by Taxbilly
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To: Commie Basher
TFF!
5 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:39 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Commie Basher
small, at times rounded, protrusion
6 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:40 PM PST by Principled
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To: Commie Basher
If one examines textual situationism, one is faced with a choice: either reject the postmodernist paradigm of reality or conclude that the purpose of the observer is social comment. Lacan promotes the use of textual nihilism to deconstruct outmoded, colonialist perceptions of sexual identity.

Thus, the subject is contextualised into a neodialectic paradigm of narrative that includes narrativity as a paradox. Baudrillard's analysis of the postmodernist paradigm of reality holds that truth is used to exploit the underprivileged.

But if textual nihilism holds, we have to choose between textual situationism and Marxist capitalism. Lacan uses the term 'the structuralist paradigm of context' to denote the economy, and some would say the absurdity, of subdialectic society. In a sense, in Vineland, Pynchon analyses the postmodernist paradigm of reality; in Gravity's Rainbow, although, he examines Sartreist absurdity. The primary theme of the works of Pynchon is the role of the poet as reader.

7 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:50 PM PST by Diverdogz
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To: Commie Basher
I can now see where Michael Rivero got the material for his posts.

Semper Fi

8 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:50 PM PST by Trident/Delta
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To: Commie Basher
Also good for a laugh is the COMPLAINT GENERATOR

Here is my complaint with Jim Robinson :)

This letter is not meant to be witty or insulting, and I am afraid I won't even be able to make it eloquent. But I will do the best I can to comment on Mr. Jim Robinson's harangues. To organize my discussion, I suggest that we take one step back in the causal chain and exemplify the principles of honor, duty, loyalty, and courage. Once again, nihilism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Robinson cling to it? No, don't guess; this isn't audience participation day. I'll just tell you. But before I do, you should note that Mr. Robinson has never satisfactorily proved his assertion that all literature which opposes metagrobolism was forged by homophobic underachievers. He has merely justified that assertion with the phrase, "Because I said so."

Think about this: I find that some of his choices of words in his credos would not have been mine. For example, I would have substituted "morally crippled" for "philodestructiveness" and "gruesome" for "saccharogalactorrhea." So we're supposed to give Mr. Robinson permission to seek temporary tactical alliances with paltry, unconscionable pop psychologists in order to quote me out of context and hope he's rational enough not to do so? How naive! I, for one, understand that given the public appetite for more accountability, his historical record of besotted, horny smear tactics is clearer than the muddled pronouncements of his cringers, but when you tell Mr. Robinson's attendants that Mr. Robinson's cronies always detect profound wisdom in what is most incomprehensible to them personally, they begin to get fidgety, and their eyes begin to wander. They really don't care. They have no interest in hearing that in order to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most despicable manifestations, we must grant people the freedom to pursue any endeavor they deem fitting to their skills, talent, and interest. And that's just the first step. Remember, several things Mr. Robinson has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement of his that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something to the effect of how skin color means more than skill and gender is more impressive than genius. Finally, any mistakes in this letter are strictly my fault. But if you find any factual error or have more updated information on the subject of Mr. Jim Robinson, Mr. Robinson-inspired versions of corporatism, etc., please tell me, so I can write an even stronger letter next time.

9 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:52 PM PST by Diverdogz
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To: Focault's Pendulum; mykdsmom; LoanPalm; RikaStrom; xsmommy; Darth Reagan
Marxism, precultural textual theory and Marxism

E. Helmut McElwaine
Department of Ontology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1. Dialectic theory and neostructural situationism

"Sexuality is impossible," says Foucault.
In a sense, Marx suggests the use of capitalist materialism to read and attack class.
The subject is interpolated into a neostructural situationism that includes truth as a totality.

11 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:54 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Commie Basher
By gum ! Ah thowt ah was a readin' somepin from the New York Review of Books ! ( Land o' Goshen, how them ree-vuers carry on ! They given me a haidache-even whin ah'm wearin' mah foil-lined Deerstalker cap ! )
Mah older bro,he's kinda Progressive ? Ah done sent 'im a copy a that-there website. He gonna be pissed whin he figgers out he's bin dissed !
14 posted on 11/16/2001 1:09:57 PM PST by genefromjersey
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To: Commie Basher
Dialectical merriment!
16 posted on 11/16/2001 1:10:13 PM PST by True Capitalist
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To: Commie Basher
Let me remind you of Alan Sokal's spoof of academic gobbledygook "Transgressing the Boundaries" that actually got published--

And here's an article discussing it in the Emperor's Clothes context-- And this happens to be an LA Times article--- hehehe.

20 posted on 11/16/2001 1:10:18 PM PST by George Smiley
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LOL! Sounds like a lot of "liberal arts" doctoral dissertations that one might read. By the way, there's a reason why topics such as philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, women's studies, etc. are given the name "liberal" arts...
25 posted on 11/16/2001 1:10:32 PM PST by LaBradford22
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To: Commie Basher
Absolutely great find! I feel so enlightened now that all my internal philosophical debates have been settled so brilliantly:

" "Sexual identity is elitist," says Sartre. Lyotard promotes the use of neostructural objectivism to deconstruct hierarchy. But the premise of realism holds that truth, paradoxically, has intrinsic meaning, but only if narrativity is interchangeable with truth. "

30 posted on 11/16/2001 1:10:55 PM PST by PoisedWoman
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To: Commie Basher
What a find! ROTFLMAO!!

A number of discourses concerning dialectic nationalism exist. It could be said that if neocultural desituationism holds, we have to choose between dialectic nationalism and neocultural construction.

Well, I should certainly think so!

33 posted on 11/16/2001 1:11:01 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Commie Basher
BTTT
34 posted on 11/16/2001 1:11:02 PM PST by Nora
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