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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 8 Apr 1992 12:28:18 CDT
From: Scott Graves <U26703@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.is.too,alt.evil,alt.alt
Subject: Re: La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, de, da . . .
 <1992Apr07.083942.13054@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
 <1992Apr8.023319.7541@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>


In article <1992Apr8.023319.7541@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, Kamchatka Charlie says:
>
>olivier@spira.bri.hp.com writes:
>>rakast@bluemoon.rn.com writes:
>>>Mike Bur writes:
>>>>james.j.dutton writes:
>>>>>james.j.dutton writes:
>>>>>>I friggin writes:
>>>>>>>Christopher Kush is a shmuck does'nt write:
>>>>>>>>(Stephen M. Jones writes:
>>>>>>>>>root writes:
>>>>>>>>>>cheating@ccvm.sunysb.edu writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>James 'Kibo' Parry writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>Matt Garretson writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Brad Baillod writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Walter D. Pullen writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Adam Dray writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Tom Hamill writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>David Gundlach writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And then in Daniel Dise said...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Bat Rastard writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Michael Wasylik writes...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>David Gundlach writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And then Bat Rastard said...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>U37460@uicvm.uic.edu writes...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Tom Hamill says:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>James 'Kibo' Parry writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Paul D Evans writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Chris Colby writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Lawrence C. Foard writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>James 'Kibo' Parry writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  GEE, I'M SURE GLAD THAT .SIGNATURE VIRUSES ARE
>PASSE.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>They will just mutate to get around it!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Evolution is god!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sanitation is fraud:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sandinistas ate Maude.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Santa Claus baits God.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Satan Claws Bates Dog!  Film At Eleven!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Satin draws mates bod.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I sat in Ward's tame knob.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I set a weird time bomb.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I shed a weird tie, Bob...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I shot a wet teen babe.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Izod's a wasp trend, Biff.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I drove off a west end cliff
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I rode to arrest a lift.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Electrodes tie my wrists.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Elephants dive off rats.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Eggplants live on mats.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Evolution is cats!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Beetle lotion in vats
>>>>>>>>>>>>Feeble notions of autocrats.
>>>>>>>>>>>Foss'll know jejunoileal bypass.
>>>>>>>>>>Fossils found in cat's smashed ass.
>>>>>>>>>>Take care.
>>>>>>>>>use nair.
>>>>>>>>Oh contraire
>>>>>>>Your butt is bare
>>>>>>It was on a dare
>>>>>Shall we share
>>>>Mao ate the hare!  News at Six!!
>>>Aaaaaaauuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhh!! Are you all there?!
>>Allez, Salut maintenant !!!!! (Rapidoooooooooooo)
>Ali sues Mandelbrot...riiiiiiiiight!!!
Alice's Ozymandias complex riles Shelley


Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
From: kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Subject: Re: An Impotent Announcement
Organization: A room filled with typography (in Boston's Back Bay)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:38:03 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.003203.5376@mercury.unt.edu> cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu (christopher williams) writes:
>In <1992Apr13.123634.11670@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> lbn@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>In article <BMI9K8.M8@world.std.com>,
>>kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes: 
>>> In article <1992Apr10.120524.14253@mscg.com> bob@aneurism.mscg.com (J.R. "BoB" Dobbs) writes:
>>>>I urinate on this newsgroup!
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>"BoB"
>>> 
>>> I urinate on the concept of your urination.
>>> 
>>> "But more important than these minor shared attributes, the most
>>> significant characteristic to emerge from Post-Modernism is a profound
>>> sense of play and humor."  -- Heller & Anderson, "Graphic Wit", 1991
>>> 
>>> 
>>sense?
>
>I urinate on your senses.

Stop this so-called "cascade" or I'll urinate on your postmaster!

								-- K.

Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
From: kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Subject: alt.PoMo FAQ (was Re: FAQ query)
Organization: A room filled with typography (in Boston's Back Bay)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:43:10 GMT

In article <1168@smds.UUCP> sammy@smds.UUCP (Samuel Murphy) writes:
>
>Is there one for alt.postmodern?


        F requently   A sked   Q uestions   for alt.postmodern
        ======================================================

	1.)  Is there one for alt.postmodern?

	Answer:  Yes.

	2.)  What does the alt.postmodern FAQ cover?

	Answer:  I don't know!

	IF YOU HAVE A SUGGESTION ON HOW TO IMPROVE THIS FAQ, THAT'S NICE.


						-- Shiek Haroun el-Faqini
From: lbn@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
Subject: Re: An Impotent Announcement
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:36:34 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

In article <BMI9K8.M8@world.std.com>,
kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes: 
> In article <1992Apr10.120524.14253@mscg.com> bob@aneurism.mscg.com (J.R. "BoB" Dobbs) writes:
>>I urinate on this newsgroup!
>>
>>-- 
>>"BoB"
> 
> I urinate on the concept of your urination.
> 
> "But more important than these minor shared attributes, the most
> significant characteristic to emerge from Post-Modernism is a profound
> sense of play and humor."  -- Heller & Anderson, "Graphic Wit", 1991
> 
> 
sense?


Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
From: sasefj@junebug.unx.sas.com (Edith Jeffreys)
Subject: Re: Some variation thereof
    <BM88Gx.5AC@world.std.com> <ro7ndINNs21@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:07:27 GMT
Originator: sasefj@junebug.unx.sas.com
X-Bytes: 1389

In article <ro7ndINNs21@agate.berkeley.edu>, shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:
>In article <BM88Gx.5AC@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>>It would be very postmodern to have the Message-ID also fill in the
>>Subject blank.
>
>It would be even cooler to use alt.postmodern to discuss postmodernism,
>semiotics, deconstruction, and the like.

A voice of sanity.

>Seriously, it would be nice to have a newsgroup for discussing
>postmodernism, but alt.postmodern apparently isn't it.  Unfortunately
>the name seems to attract:
>a) people who are offended by the word "postmodern" and would like to
>    explain in detail why the word is contradictory,
>b) people who think that anything really bizarre counts as postmodern and
>    think alt.postmodern is the perfect place for their lifestyle, and
>c) people who want to discuss bands that MTV calls "postmodern".
>
>Does anyone else think that alt.postmodern should be abandoned and
>alt.literary-theory or alt.derrida or something created?
>
get it created and i'll be there

>Ken Shirriff                           shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU



-- 
Edie Jeffreys            The fact is, no matter how closely I study it
SAS Institute, Inc.      No matter how I take it apart
SAS Circle, Cary, NC     No matter how i break it down
(919)677-8000 x6946      It remains consistent.  -- Belew
Organization: Freshman, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
From: rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson)
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
Subject: Re: Some variation thereof
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:15:05 GMT

shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:

> Does anyone else think that alt.postmodern should be abandoned and
> alt.literary-theory or alt.derrida or something created?

Actually it already exists.  I have been reading the DERRIDA list
for some time and it comes close to what you describe.  It's a
BITNET list that isn't gated into Usenet as a Newsgroup and I
haven't yet figured out how to post in it -- for some reason I
don't yet understand my Waffle software posted into other ungated
lists but not into DERRIDA -- but the discussion is interesting,
the participants take it seriously, AND THERE ARE NO CASCADES!

--
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Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
From: hooker@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Robert Hooker)
Subject: Re: Some variation thereof
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:13:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.035124.7800@mercury.unt.edu> cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu 
(christopher williams) writes:
> maybe someone should post The Ballad of Robert Hooker again.
someday everyone would host a sallad for Robert Hooker's pigpen


Ce n'est pas un cascade


Xref: sparky alt.postmodern:1185 alt.slack:1367 alt.sex:13860 alt.fan.monty-python:2666
From: 911414p@ace.acadiau.ca (PIOTR CEZARY  PROSZYNSKI)
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.slack,alt.sex,alt.fan.monty-python
Subject: Re: Some variation thereof (DO NOT C*SCADE THIS)
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:51:35 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

In article <1992Apr8.003435.15840@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> klein@kira.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) writes:

>In article <BMCJ9y.K2D@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr7.035124.7800@mercury.unt.edu> cgw@sol.acs.unt.edu (christopher williams) writes:
>>>In <1992Apr6.140727.29677@unx.sas.com> sasefj@junebug.unx.sas.com (Edith Jeffreys) writes:
>>>>In article <ro7ndINNs21@agate.berkeley.edu>, shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:
>>>>>In article <BM88Gx.5AC@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>>>>>>It would be very postmodern to have the Message-ID also fill in the
>>>>>>Subject blank.
>>>>>
>>>>>It would be even cooler to use alt.postmodern to discuss postmodernism,
>>>>>semiotics, deconstruction, and the like.
>>>>
>>>>A voice of sanity.
>>>
>>>Kibo? Yes. 
>>>
>>>However, you can't discuss alt.postmodern to discuss postmodernism;
>>>postmodernism is already passe. And passed, too.
>>                               ,
>>And .signature viruses are passe, too.  Unfortunately, last time I said
>>that, some weinerbrains started a cascade.  PLEASE DON'T CASCADE THIS LINE.
>What's a cascade?

>>OR THIS ONE.
>One What?
One With Everything (the McBuddha).
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
From: kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: today's lesson
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:01:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.BMruM6.Azn
Organization: A room filled with typography (in Boston's Back Bay)

In article <1992Apr15.150826.25952@doug.cae.wisc.edu> ljung@cae.wisc.edu (David Ljung) writes:
>In article <puchm.703308419@marsh> puchm@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Richard Puchmayer) writes:
>>sherman@oak.math.ucla.edu (The Ahkond of Swat) writes:
>>
>>>Some of you may 
>>>doubt my foresight, but let them notice that this article is totally
>>>right-justified without any artificial spacing, thereby assuring you
>>>that I have powers far beyond those of most mortals and am for real.
>>
>>    Let this faithfull bow his head in your general direction.
>>    How the f**k did you ever manage that.
>
>Well dear Richard, let me see if I can
>explain this slowly enough for mortals
>to understand everywhere.  We are gods
>of justification, and no one can touch
>us.  Your petty left justified, messed
>up, ugly, jagged, and despicable right
>margins can be seen as an indicator of
>your incompetence and worthlessness. I
>could kill you with a simple two lined
>full-justified message without even an
>afterthought.  Now Richard, do you see
>our godliness?  Can you see the way of
>the full-justificator is the right and
>just way?  Now we must sing the hymns,
>and bow our heads and pray.
>
>Oops.  That last line didnt go all the
>way over. Even gods can make mistakes.

 Doesn't anyone use hanging punctuation these days?  The lines ending   <-
 with "." and "," would look better if they were one character longer,  <-
"Woo!" Kibo said.  "Niftadelic heftalicious punctuatifryings!"  Fnord.  <-

 Hanging punctuation should NOT be made of macrame.  
								-- K.
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.religion.kibology,alt.sex,alt.fan.warlord,alt.tasteless
From: cjudd@esk (Craig Thomas Judd)
Subject: Re: La, la, la...
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 11:50:37 GMT

In article <wcsjc.702239695@cunews>, wcsjc@alfred.carleton.ca (John Coughlin) writes:
>
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>% >>>>> >Evolution is god!
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>% >>>>> Sanitation is fraud:
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>% >>>>Sandinistas ate Maude.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>% >>>Santa Claus baits God.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>% >>>Satan Claws Bates Dog!  Film At Eleven!
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>% >>Satin draws mates bod.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>% >I sat in Ward's tame knob.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>% I set a weird time bomb.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>>I shed a weird tie, Bob...
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >>I shot a wet teen babe.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% >Izod's a wasp trend, Biff.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >% I drove off a west end cliff
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> >I rode to arrest a lift.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>|> Electrodes tie my wrists.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>`>Elephants dive off rats.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>>I lift knife, off frats.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>>Eyes entice tough gnats.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >>Spice is nice in pants.
>>>>> >> >> >>> >The ants in France are mainly in the pants.
>>>>> >> >> >>> Sasafrass beats me in the ass
>>>>> >> >> >>A monster phart is a work of art
>>>>> >> >> >My PC starts to need spare parts.
>>>>> >> >> TV's Bart won't heed Homer's harks.
>>>>> >> >ReBars don't need homeless sharks.
>>>>> >> Ziebart phoney'd boneless sparks.
>>>>> >Hobart phoned home, Leslie Parks.
>>>>> Fart if you have to, even an a lark.
>>>>Furtive ewes, heave to leaven alarm.
>>>The wheel is an extension of the foot.
>>The bloated crow limps home today.
>Wasting bandwidth is just my way.
Tasting sandwitches from yesterday.

Is this a Thread? I hope so...

Yours threadedly;


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Xref: sparky alt.postmodern:1264 alt.slack:1423 alt.stupidity:1515
From: rubel0455@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.slack,alt.stupidity
Subject: Re: alt.cascade anyone? (was Re: Aaaaaaaiiiieeeeee...)
Date: 14 Apr 92 06:10:41 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Apr14.035626.20404@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, feygin@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Alexander Feygin) writes:
> willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams) writes:
> }In <1992Apr13.031916.22082@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> feygin@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Alexander Feygin) writes:
> }>kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
> }>}Please do your part to conserve valuable bandwidth.  Don't cascade this.
> }>Please eat your lard to preserve terrible Norse myths.  Don't parade, miss.
> }Please play your card and serve great fish dishes.  Don't get laid, miss.
> Please may your heart reserve to be delicious.  Don't use Raid, sis.
Please play the tart, conserve and be fictitious. Don't touch gay piss!
Xref: sparky alt.postmodern:1179 alt.is.too:46 alt.party:193 alt.evil:1639 alt.alt:44 bit.listserv.fnord-l:435
From: Kamchatka Charlie
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.is.too,alt.party,alt.evil,alt.alt,bit.listserv.fnord-l
Subject: Re: Re: La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, de, da . . .
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:33:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: msuinfo.1992Apr8.023319.7541
Organization: Psychosis Unlimited International

olivier@spira.bri.hp.com writes:
>rakast@bluemoon.rn.com writes:
>>Mike Bur writes:
>>>james.j.dutton writes:
>>>>james.j.dutton writes:
>>>>>I friggin writes:
>>>>>>Christopher Kush is a shmuck does'nt write:
>>>>>>>(Stephen M. Jones writes:
>>>>>>>>root writes:
>>>>>>>>>cheating@ccvm.sunysb.edu writes:
>>>>>>>>>>James 'Kibo' Parry writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>Matt Garretson writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>Brad Baillod writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Walter D. Pullen writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Adam Dray writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Tom Hamill writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>David Gundlach writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And then in Daniel Dise said...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Bat Rastard writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Michael Wasylik writes...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>David Gundlach writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>And then Bat Rastard said...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>U37460@uicvm.uic.edu writes...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Tom Hamill says:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>James 'Kibo' Parry writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Paul D Evans writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Chris Colby writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Lawrence C. Foard writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>James 'Kibo' Parry writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  GEE, I'M SURE GLAD THAT .SIGNATURE VIRUSES ARE
PASSE.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>They will just mutate to get around it!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Evolution is god!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sanitation is fraud:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sandinistas ate Maude.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Santa Claus baits God.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Satan Claws Bates Dog!  Film At Eleven!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Satin draws mates bod.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I sat in Ward's tame knob.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I set a weird time bomb.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I shed a weird tie, Bob...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I shot a wet teen babe.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Izod's a wasp trend, Biff.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I drove off a west end cliff
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I rode to arrest a lift.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Electrodes tie my wrists.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Elephants dive off rats.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Eggplants live on mats.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Evolution is cats!
>>>>>>>>>>>>Beetle lotion in vats
>>>>>>>>>>>Feeble notions of autocrats.
>>>>>>>>>>Foss'll know jejunoileal bypass.
>>>>>>>>>Fossils found in cat's smashed ass.
>>>>>>>>>Take care.
>>>>>>>>use nair.
>>>>>>>Oh contraire
>>>>>>Your butt is bare
>>>>>It was on a dare
>>>>Shall we share
>>>Mao ate the hare!  News at Six!!
>>Aaaaaaauuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhh!! Are you all there?!
>Allez, Salut maintenant !!!!! (Rapidoooooooooooo)
Ali sues Mandelbrot...riiiiiiiiight!!!
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.religion.kibology
From: rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson)
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
Subject: Re: hey
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:25:17 GMT

hooker@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Robert Hooker) writes:

> In article <1992Apr9.103456.11602@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> 
> lbn@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
> >  are theorists going to change the world by theorizing?  is
> > anyone else?  is anyone who may have time to acutally DO something the
> > least bit afffected by the effervescent dynamics of critical theory?
> 
> Well the essence of postmodern academic work (well atleast this is the 
> best way I have heard it put) is that theory,  I mean really big theory 
> which lets you go out and think that you can change the world like 
> following the directions of a repair kit, is dead.  Dead are Marxism, 
> Freudianism, all theories which try to explain the entire world
> 
> So the idea that theories will change  the world is very unpostmodern.  

Hello again, Bob.

I've got a different take on that.  I think what we call
"postmodernism" or "post-structuralism" was, to a very large
extent, not an independent discourse in its own right so much as a
counterdiscourse to neo-Marxism in its critical theory and
Fannonist, Maoist form, which, for reasons we don't really
understand, dominated Western intellectual life -- consciously in
France and unconsciously here in America.

I've said that before but no one has ever wanted to follow it up.
Well, now that I've nearly finished doing  my taxes for the year
-- I'm taking a break now -- I think I'll try to articulate my
interpretation as clearly as I can and post it in the DERRIDA list
and see what the people who seem to understand deconstruction
think of it.  It wont' be long before we can test the truth of my
notion since with the demise of communism and the attendant
delegitimation of Marxist thought -- naturally just at a time when
Marx's speculations on surplus labor, the cost of wages and the
emiseration of the working class seem to be proving accurate -- my
prediction is that you will see master narratives and grand
theories emerge (because the motivation of deconstruction was to
deconstruct and delegitimate Marxism particularly -- the
generalization to _other_ systematic theories will come to look
less and less relevant or convincing).

--
Richard Carlson
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Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Subject: Re: Ode To Massachusetts
Organization: A room filled with typography (in Boston's Back Bay)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:33:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr17.050424.24021@athena.mit.edu> sramming@athena.mit.edu (Scott '~ibo' Ramming) writes:
>In article <BMs1qx.JD4@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>>Massachusett Massachusett $80,000 universal jurisdictions, Kconsiste
>>profession royalty 4-Mass.  nonresident Mass.  Massachusett
>>Massachusett Massachusett Revenue encourage eligible. Ending: converte
>>converte Massachusett converte Summary converte 'converted converte
>>entered. converte M-2210 VPrepare converte VPrepare converte SSN(s):
>>Estimated SSN(s): Automaticall formse chosen SSN(s): Automaticall
>>primar chosen automaticall primar converte converte Summary converte
>[remainder deleted]
>
>Wah! Your disso of the tax software got much to much Massachusetts

I didn't dissociate it.  That's the way the file looked all by itself.

							-- K.
>Who couldn't spell Massachoosettes before moving here

Which, of course, is a different problem from spelling Massachusetts.
Newsgroups: alt.postmodern,alt.is.too,alt.party,alt.evil,alt.alt,bit.listserv.fnord-l