The Enlightening Gibberish Mechanism
October 4th 2006 04:32
Here is a snippet of an essay generated by http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo:
The Absurdity of Context: Expressionism and the neotextual paradigm of expression
1. Expressions of dialectic
In the works of Madonna, a predominant concept is the distinction between closing and opening. Therefore, if the neotextual paradigm of expression holds, the works of Madonna are postmodern. The subject is interpolated into a Foucaultist power relations that includes truth as a whole.
The disclaimer for this essay, and all essays that are produced by The Postmodern Generator, goes like this:
The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator.
Yet to dismiss this text as gibberish is to discredit the potential it has to inspire meaning within its own special context. For argument's sake, the first sentence can be read as insightful commentary upon the texts of 'Die Another Day' in which Madonna sings "I'm gonna close / my body now" and that of 'Open Your Heart'. In the first text she uses crisp, clipped tones to signify an empowered stance, affirming the Foucauldian notion that knowledge is power, whereas 'Open Your Heart' is a more traditional entreatment to an unresponsive love interest, making the theme of opening/closing multi-faceted and applicable in a number of different contexts. Madonna's music is often concerned with the affirmation of one true perspective, which makes the final sentence relevant to the preceding argument.
If meaning can in fact be successfully manufactured by the reader in relation to The Postmodern Essay Generator, referring to the creation as 'meaningless', is to seriously undermine its potential. The author is (unintentionally?) marginalising the opportunities that randomly generated text creates for surprisingly insightful formations.
I argue that meaning can be found in any text, without exception, and the idea of a gibberish work should be obsolete.
The Absurdity of Context: Expressionism and the neotextual paradigm of expression
1. Expressions of dialectic
In the works of Madonna, a predominant concept is the distinction between closing and opening. Therefore, if the neotextual paradigm of expression holds, the works of Madonna are postmodern. The subject is interpolated into a Foucaultist power relations that includes truth as a whole.
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The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator.
Yet to dismiss this text as gibberish is to discredit the potential it has to inspire meaning within its own special context. For argument's sake, the first sentence can be read as insightful commentary upon the texts of 'Die Another Day' in which Madonna sings "I'm gonna close / my body now" and that of 'Open Your Heart'. In the first text she uses crisp, clipped tones to signify an empowered stance, affirming the Foucauldian notion that knowledge is power, whereas 'Open Your Heart' is a more traditional entreatment to an unresponsive love interest, making the theme of opening/closing multi-faceted and applicable in a number of different contexts. Madonna's music is often concerned with the affirmation of one true perspective, which makes the final sentence relevant to the preceding argument.
If meaning can in fact be successfully manufactured by the reader in relation to The Postmodern Essay Generator, referring to the creation as 'meaningless', is to seriously undermine its potential. The author is (unintentionally?) marginalising the opportunities that randomly generated text creates for surprisingly insightful formations.
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