Sokol, hoaxing, parody

[White, Rich]

Does anyone on this list read The American Scholar?  (an effete intellectual 
quarterly).  There was an article in the Winter 1994 issue called Notes on 
the Poststructural Code by one Bert O. States of UC/Santa Barbara (professor 
of dramatic arts), full of mind-numbing Derrida-esqe jargon.  It was pretty 
funny and I though it was a parody of the genre, eg:

"Thus Lacan is not a sound but a library of ecrits, a labyrinth in whose 
endless passages resounds the sonorous echo of the Unconscious itself.  It 
is as if these magical, musical, cabalistic phonations had been conjured by 
poets to sweeten the discourse...."

Anyhow, nobody ever responded in the Letters to the Editor so I didn't find 
out if the guy was kidding or not.  It's good for a few laughs if your 
library subscribes....