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Entry: Defund the Humanities Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/defund_the_humanities#28028 Post contents: A “Postmodernism Generator,” which will on demand produce an entirely persuasive, utterly meaningless tissue of jargon... Alan Sokal, produced such ...—generating a lengthy and self-important debate among the drones " Holy Bolano, John--Heaven forfend that any writing here should confuse the histrionics of a bloody minded Yale undergraduate with the grand guignol of Stan Fish in full cry. It could signify the sort of intellectual potato famine that sees West Wing rustics and sycophants gnawing on The National Medal of the Humanities while mold grows on the works of McLuhan,or that rich and fruitful son of the Paris of Thomas Aquinas, Roland Barthes. If the Sixties had never happened,the Seventies would have come around anyway- where is Hugh Kenner now that we need him ? Sent at: 2009 01 09