[Marxism] Re: Technobabble wows organizers of academic confab

[l.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

.    On  15.04.05
  wrote  jbustelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joaquín Bustelo)
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     in  20050415160205.QATB2032.imf24aec.mail.bellsouth.net@athlon
  about  [Marxism] Technobabble wows organizers of academic confab


JnB> Jeremy Stribling said on Thursday that he and two fellow MIT
JnB> graduate students questioned the standards of some academic
JnB> conferences, so they wrote a computer programme to generate research
JnB> papers complete with nonsensical text, charts and diagrams.


   Is that the same as the post-modernism essay generator?

   http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern

   Steve Gabosch mentioned it in a contribution dated 18 Oct 2004:

   http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w42/msg00015.htm



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Lüko Willms                                     http://www.mlwerke.de
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