The precultural paradigm of expression in the works of Pynchon

John Bailey sundayjb at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 17:35:29 CST 2009


I think this was just a use of the Postmodernism Generator at:

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

Opening the page creates a randomly generated Sokal-esque essay that
reads exactly like Baty's. Refresh the page a few times and you get
the idea.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:16 AM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> This article seems to have flown over the heads of a number of posters.
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> Hanfkopf translates roughly as pothead.
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> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 3:02 pm
> Subject: Re: The precultural paradigm of expression in the works of Pynchon
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>   "Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social
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>    conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions
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>    from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first
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>    floor.)"
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> "So far, so good" as the old joke goes . . .
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> On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Otto wrote:
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>> Another case?
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sokal
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>> 2009/11/12 Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
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>>> No Need—I've got a box of full of "Naughty Neighbors" I'll be glad to
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>>> on the dude's head. Then we can pummel him with hardbound copies of
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>>> "Anit-Oedipus" and "Love's Body." That ought to satisfy our needs >>
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> for POMO
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>>> discourse, at least until Terrance decides to beat us up again.
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>>> On Nov 12, 2009, at 10:47 AM, rich wrote:
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>>>> who wants to beat this guy over the head with a copy of Doc's Young
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>>>> Nympho magazine
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>>>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Dave Monroe
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>>>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://jackbaty.com/2009/11/the-precultural-paradigm-of-expression-in-the-works-of-pynchon/
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