Monday, April 11, 2005

The Postmodernism Generator

As a Lit Ph.D manqué, I find this really interesting. A subject near and queer to my heart:

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

Interesting in that it's entirely automated using "recursive
transition network" code (that you can download here):

http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/

I think this was created before the internet really got going. With
the web and the ability to grab web pages, I imagine one could do some
even more interesting things with this. (With a few tweaks, maybe
even generate his entire Ph.D thesis.)

1 Comments:

Blogger Tom said...

This looks like a slightly refined version of the generator -- by someone perhaps with a little more experience in graduate humanities programs:

http://www.gingko.ch/cdrom/jwrandom/postmodernism/

10:02 AM  

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