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Automate Your Theorizing!


Submitted by Jim Aune on November 3, 2009 - 12:06pm


Oh, dear. I got: "The epistemology of post-capitalist hegemony opens a space for the discourse of linguistic transparency." Some recent articles I've reviewed for QJS seem to have been written using this machine.

Submitted by johnm on November 4, 2009 - 11:32am.

I got:

"The culture of consumption opens a space for the ideology of agency."

I'm pretty sure this is a sentence I've actually read somewhere else before.

The thing with automated content generators like this is --- you can do them for anything. We could have an automated Republican machine and get general statements even blander than these. (hmmm, that makes me want to google for an automated Republican sentence generator)

Submitted by mercieca on November 4, 2009 - 10:45am.

"The fiction of civil society asks to be read as the legitimation of the public sphere."

Submitted by Adria on November 4, 2009 - 11:16am.

"The emergence of normative value(s) carries with it the ideology of the public sphere."