Phi is for Philippus (Gorey meets Athenaze)

No, Philippos! Not again!

The Postmodern Generator is brilliant!

Well, it gets the undigested name-dropping right, but when an actual postmodernist can regularly toss out single sentences like this (Butler’s famous Bad Writing contest winner):

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

I think the generator should make much larger sentences.

Being unfortunate enough to choose Philosophy and English as the ‘substance’ of my degree, I only wish I had known of the Generator before I graduated; it would have been interesting to try out Alan Sokal’s experiment on a smaller scale (don’t try this at home kiddies! blah, go ahead!!), though I’m not sure how I’d feel about putting my name on something I didn’t write. The upside is I’d get to see if I actually passed, and if so by how much of a margin.. :laughing:

Edit: that was a wonderful barage of ‘cortex-whithering’ meaninglessness clothed in pseudo-intellectual magniloquence; I’m sure just about anyone can find something meaningful in its slippery & maleable semantics.

Kudos!

I thought the band name generator was well worth the price of admission. I clicked on it numerous times! It actually came up with some prety good names too…of course I was severly bothered by “Ted Manlove and the Pink Frog Quartet”, but other than that the names were great.

I nominate “The Caustic Bishop Incident” as the name for the Textkit house band.

Some of the underclassmen at my school did some Asian Theatre fusion skits with the most random names - and knowing the class, I bet the names were semi-randomnized. Some of the titles I recall are “How To Cook a Meal in 20 Minutes by the Meal Cookers”, “Lucid Dreams by the Awful Waffles”, "Hot Sunday Loving by ", and a name which will probably be censored by the forum’s decency monitors. The only skit which had anything remotely related to its title was the one about the meal cookers, but they were doing it while singing a traditional (and by traditional, I mean 800 year old) Japanese song, which was really funny. There were other things in the Asian theatre demo which were weird/funny in a random way, but it’s difficult to describe the odd humour of the piece they did about AIDS.