Is this for real ?

[frances bolton]

The piece on generating text from recursive grammars is actually kind of
interesting, if you like that sort of thing. I have also come across Bill
Clinton and Newt Gingrich speech generators, which are also funny in a
scary-clown sort of way.

Frances

"She was ridden by gods, in New Jersey."

   William Gibson

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us>
To: Lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <Lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>;
Marxism at lists.panix.com <Marxism at lists.panix.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 10:07 AM
Subject: Is this for real ?


>This mechanical postmodern essay generator seems like the Sokal and
Bricomont hoax to the tenth power.
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>Charles Brown
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>>>> "Workers World / Chicago" <wwchi at wwa.com> 08/17/99 08:45PM >>>
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>The most hilarious link from this page is the "Postmodern Essay Generator"
at
>http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/postmodern
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>This link, when selected, automatically generates your own personal
postmodern essay.  It is likely to have a lot to do with socialist realism.
If you get it published, be sure to credit the author of the program:
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>>The Postmodernism Generator was written by Andrew C. Bulhak, using the
Dada Engine, a system for generating random text
>from recursive grammars.
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>>More detailed technical information may be found in Monash University
Department of Computer Science Technical Report
>>96/264: "On the Simulation of Postmodernism and Mental Debility Using
Recursive Transition Networks". An on-line
>>copy is available here.
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