I ASKED FOR IT

Two “beat this sentence” sentences, forwarded by some readers with too much time on their hands:

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.” – Judith Butler, “Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time,” Diacritics (1997).

“Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the exterior absolute the absolute existent (of that of which it is not possible to univocally predicate an outside, while the equivocal predication of the outside of the absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so predicated is not the reality, viz., of the dark/of the self, the identity of which is not outside the absolute identity of the outside, which is to say that the equivocal predication of identity is possible of the self-identity which is not identity, while identity is univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the limit of the reality of the self).” – D.G. Leahy, “Foundation: Matter the Body Itself.”

It’s actually possible to come up with this stuff yourself. A couple of bright sparks have set up a random post-modern sentence generator on the web. If you’re dong “queer theory” in some goddawful graduate school and need to pull an all-nighter, this is the solution you’ve been waiting for. An instant, computer-generated meaningless, i.e. pomo, essay at your finger tips. <a HREF = "http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern” TARGET = NEW>Enjoy.