Academic Nonsense Generator!

[BKM]

This is hilarious.

Just as we can laugh at the architectural nonsense of Zaha Hadid, we can also laugh at the underlying nonsense of the academic world in general. I was reading an interesting article about Alan Sokel, who submitted an article of absolute nonsense to a "prestigious" literary journal-who accepted it.

So now, you can generate your own literary journal research:

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

My first "work" suitable for peer review in postmodernist intellectual world:

The Reality of Economy: The postcapitalist paradigm of narrative and precultural Marxism
Henry C. P. Prinn
Department of Gender Politics, University of California, Berkeley

1. Smith and cultural narrative
The characteristic theme of Hanfkopf's[1] essay on the postcapitalist paradigm of narrative is a subcapitalist paradox. In Mallrats, Smith examines Baudrillardist simulation; in Dogma, although, he analyses precultural Marxism. Thus, Wilson[2] holds that we have to choose between the postcapitalist paradigm of narrative and postcultural discourse.

 

[Maister]

That's awesome. I think I will turn one of my anthropologist friends onto that site - anthropology is probably more into postmodernism than any other academic field. Lots of post-, pre-, -ual, -ism neologisms used in their pub's.
I think she'll now be able to finish her thesis......

 

[ChevyChaseDC]

here's what I came up with:

Dialectic theory in the works of Koons
Z. John Finnis
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois
1. Pynchon and Batailleist `powerful communication'
If one examines dialectic theory, one is faced with a choice: either reject postcultural desublimation or conclude that the goal of the participant is deconstruction, but only if culture is interchangeable with language; if that is not the case, we can assume that the State is capable of truth. It could be said that Foucault promotes the use of Batailleist `powerful communication' to attack archaic perceptions of sexual identity. The primary theme of Humphrey's[1] model of Baudrillardist simulacra is the bridge between society and sexual identity.

I wish I had known about this website when I took a course at the University of Michigan on intro to semiotics (don't ask...I was a freshman)...it would have been an 'A' term paper - we actually had to read Foucault's blather

It's amazing the kind of crap liberal arts students can get away with...writing papers about Kevin Smith movies?!