From: John Thomas (jwthomas@sonic.net)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 17:32:10 MST
At 2:01 PM -0800 1/19/02, Forrest Bishop wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
>> Is that paragraph really something said by a thinking human
>> being? It reads like computer-generated prose fed by a database
>> of old issues of /Social Text/ or something. If this is typical
>> of the output of a certain organization, I see no reason to
>> take that organization seriously.
>
>It was generated by copping phrases from various books and online
>references (see next post), then pasting them together in
>semi-logical order, much the same as the UN Declaration of Human Rights
>and Agenda 21 were. It occured to me as well this process
>can be automated.
It already has been; see the Postmodern Generator
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/
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-Regards,
John Thomas
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