random link -- Try this thing out. Do you work in Academia? Pressed for time and need to publish? No need to fret! This will generate an essay perfectly documented (and absolutely meaningless). One professor of Physics actually used it and his article was published in about four journals before he confessed his article didn't mean anything. Isn't it amazing how we can write all the meaning out of the language while sounding terribly scholarly? Here's a sample.

Preconstructivist narrative and constructivism
Annie Dean
Department of Future Studies, University of Oregon

1. Burroughs and preconstructivist narrative

"Sexuality is intrinsically a legal fiction," says Marx; however, according to Reicher[1] , it is not so much sexuality that is intrinsically a legal fiction, but rather the stasis, and some would say the absurdity, of sexuality. Geoffrey[2] states that we have to choose between subcapitalist Marxism and dialectic discourse.

In a sense, Baudrillard uses the term 'the neoconceptual paradigm of reality' to denote the role of the poet as reader. Bataille promotes the use of structuralist libertarianism to deconstruct archaic, colonialist perceptions of society.

Thus, the premise of constructivism holds that context must come from communication. Marx uses the term 'precapitalist textual theory' to denote not narrative, but postnarrative.

In a sense, if the neoconceptual paradigm of reality holds, we have to choose between preconstructivist narrative and neodialectic discourse. The primary theme of Pickett's[3] critique of the neoconceptual paradigm of reality is the role of the observer as poet.

1. Reicher, F. (1973) The Expression of Defining characteristic: Constructivism in the works of Tarantino. Loompanics

2. Geoffrey, Q. V. S. ed. (1980) Constructivism, dialectic desublimation and socialism. Schlangekraft

3. Pickett, F. (1994) The Fatal flaw of Sexual identity: Constructivism in the works of Smith. Cambridge University Press

Don't I sound erudite?! Use it to bewilder your friends and colleagues.

random update -- Yesterday, the lovely and talented Deena updated Mercy. If you like urchin thieves, heroines in man-drag and mysterious knights, give it a read.

random endorsement -- Check out Manu Chao's original version of Bongo Bong. Not since Beck have we enjoyed such utterly senseless lyrics paired with a hypnotic beat. Robbie Williams can SUCK IT. Don't let him get away with covering this song. Manu Chao does it ten times better. RW doesn't have the cool or the accent to pull this off. Who the hell could imagine he's ever been in a jungle? Maybe the Rainforest Cafe. *Eyeroll* At this time, I also validate Beyonce's song Irreplaceable. I didn't used to take her seriously because she came from Destiny's Child and I was like, pfft, girl band. But I love that freaking song.

And that's it for Random Tuesday.

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