The Postmodernism Generator

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


This program will randomly generate a new bullshit, postmodernist "critical essay" every time you reload the page. It's built on what the techies behind it call a "recursive grammar engine." God, I love that.

Anyway, a friend of a friend of mine sent it to his history professor, who offered the following response:

Your forwarding of this satirical web address reveals a dismaying disregard for the ineluctable fundamentality and subalternity ofthe current state of academic discourse, and clearly places you inthe destabilized category of ever-postponed semiotic consonance that is required for truly post-authentic participation in a self-undermining community of mutual empowerment through ennui: theproto-Baudrillardian construct of "je ne sais quoi," which has been tragically reframed through the underlying para-metaphor of illusory Thing-ness, already so clearly shattered in the very act of cloacal performativity that even a pre-Foucaldian theorist could have self-evidently perceived in the Heideggerian Dasein.

It left me as speechless as a colonized other in a courtroom.