Postmodernism Generator

	An example of a randomly generated title.
Type of site	Parody generator
Available in	English
Owner	Andrew C. Bulhak
Created by	Andrew C. Bulhak
URL	Postmodernism Generator
Commercial	No
Launched	1996
Current status	Active
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The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces "close imitations" of postmodernist writing. It was written in 1996 by Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars.^[1] A free version is also hosted online. The essays are produced from a formal grammar defined by a recursive transition network.^[2]

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The Postmodernism Generator was mentioned by biologist Richard Dawkins in the conclusion to his article "Postmodernism Disrobed"^[3] (1998) for the scientific journal Nature, reprinted in his book A Devil's Chaplain (2004).^[4]

After he "produced the first two [lines] using a 'Postmodernism Generator,' and the second two using an 'Analytic Philosophy Generator'", philosophy of information and information ethics researcher Luciano Floridi stated, that

"So many resources are devoted to internal issues that no external input can be processed anymore, and the system stops working. The world may be undergoing a revolution, Rome may be burning, but the philosophical discourse remains detached, meaningless, and utterly oblivious. Time for an upgrade."^[5]

References

^ Bulhak, Andrew C. (April 1, 1996). "On the Simulation of Postmodernism and Mental Debility using Recursive Transition Networks" (PDF). Department of Computer Science Technical Report 96/264. Monash University.
^ Russell, Jesse; Cohn, Ronald (2013-01-21). Postmodernism Generator, by Jesse Russell. Book on Demand. ISBN 978-5-511-42969-4.
^ Dawkins, Richard (July 9, 1998). "Postmodernism Disrobed" (PDF). Nature. 394 (6689): 141–143. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..141D. doi:10.1038/28089.
^ Richard Dawkins (2004). A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 47–53, citation p. 53. ISBN 978-0-618-48539-0.
^ Luciano Floridi (Winter 2017). "Why Information Matters". The New Atlantis. Retrieved 1 January 2023.

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Official website (generates a random article each time loaded)

[1] Bulhak, Andrew C. (April 1, 1996). "On the Simulation of Postmodernism and Mental Debility using Recursive Transition Networks" (PDF). Department of Computer Science Technical Report 96/264. Monash University.

[2] Russell, Jesse; Cohn, Ronald (2013-01-21). Postmodernism Generator, by Jesse Russell. Book on Demand. ISBN 978-5-511-42969-4.

[Dawkins1998-3] Dawkins, Richard (July 9, 1998). "Postmodernism Disrobed" (PDF). Nature. 394 (6689): 141–143. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..141D. doi:10.1038/28089.

[Dawkins2004-4] Richard Dawkins (2004). A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 47–53, citation p. 53. ISBN 978-0-618-48539-0.

[5] Luciano Floridi (Winter 2017). "Why Information Matters". The New Atlantis. Retrieved 1 January 2023.

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v t e Criticism of postmodernism
Concepts	Altermodern Anti-anti-art Hypermodernity Metamodernism Neomodern Neomodernism New sincerity Post-irony Post-postmodernism Remodernism Remodernist film Stuckism International Transmodernism
Critics	Anderson Benson Berman Bricmont Bunge Chomsky Crews Dawkins Dennett Dussel Eagleton Fukuyama Hicks Jameson Kramer Lindsay Paglia Peterson Pluckrose Scruton Sokal Windschuttle
Works	Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) Higher Superstition (1994) Dead White Males (1995) Fashionable Nonsense (1997) Explaining Postmodernism (2004) The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense (2006) Cynical Theories (2020)
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