http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/postmodern
Derrida would perhaps call it "the machinic Sokal" :-)
We got computers. We don't need no stinking maîtres-à-penser.
Enzo
-----Original Message----- From: W. Kiernan <WKiernan at concentric.net> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 9:14 AM Subject: Re: Chomsky
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>
>> > I do think that much that passes under the name of Postmodernism is
>> > ridiculous
>>
>> What exactly you have in mind?
>>
>> Doug
>
>Last year I found a book by Deleuze and Guattari entitled "Anti-Oedipus"
>which was very entertaining to read standing in the aisle at the used
>book store, so I bought it. I took it home, opened it up in the middle,
>and stumbled on the illustration I have attached to this eMail. I hurt
>myself laughing, and copied the diagram out of the book; there's a
>handsome copy hanging on the wall in my office, which elicits the
>strangest looks from visitors. I haven't finished reading
>"Anti-Oedipus," I'm kind of afraid to tackle that chapter.
>
>Now I happen to enjoy stuff like this, but some people find it painfully
>annoying, just as some people love to listen to the grand opera and
>others clamp their hands over their ears and moan. At any rate, maybe
>this illustration is kind of what C. G. Estabrook had in mind.
>
>Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net
>