Comments on: “The linguistic construction of the gaze invests itself in the fantasy of the public sphere.”

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:09:12 +0000

“The poetics of normative value(s) functions as the conceptual frame for the legitimation of exchange value.”

By: arty

arty — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:14:32 +0000

The Postmodern Essay Generator has been around on the internet for years, too. I used to have a few of them up on my office wall, in homage to Alan Sokal.

By: Charlie Collier

Charlie Collier — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:14:25 +0000

“The eroticization of post-capitalist hegemony furnishes a provisional lens for the analysis of the historicization of the specular economy.”

Who knew?

By: Emina Melonic

Emina Melonic — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:38:27 +0000

This is hilarious! The writing program at U of C has always been known for things like these. When I was a student there, I took a course on the academic writing and every lecture, the profs came up with some of the out of this world sentences to help us write. The best part: they poked fun at themselves and the academic lingo, which was a welcome relief from all the Heidegger and Lacan, etc I had to read.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:51:31 +0000

“The epistemology of praxis is homologous with the invention of the nation-state.”

Thanks for the thesis for my upcoming paper!

Gulp.

By: Barry Arrington

Barry Arrington — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:47:02 +0000

Wow. I tried a dozen combinations and everytime the computer generated gibberish that sounded like it came right out of an academic journal. I’m not sure what this means, but it can’t be good.