Information Does Not Exist
“We proffer an epistemological, ontological, and ecumenical analysis of the informatics zeitgeist surrounding librarians and so-called information scientists. A fuzzy systems tautomerism and transformative hermeneutic lexiae with stemming metadata shows that behind an axiometric normalization of mutually reinforcing moieties, institutionalized metaphors, and naïve liturgical dogmas lies nothing more than gormandized aphorisms and pseudoscientific quanta. This endemic helix permeates the koans of nacirema determinates and quidditative paradigms alike. The operationalized gestalt is collapsed, as with its photonic counterpart, via an interaction among the cromulent a priori of epiphenomenal knowledge management and the parsimonious lorem ipsum of atomistic artificial intelligence and its ilk. Neither the nascent yet positivist hyperliteracy movement nor the transactive pedagogical convergence of jingoistic multiliteracies possess the constituent wherewithal for explicating the existence of information per se or affirming the verstehende of contemporary librarianship; you can’t eat your cake and have it too. Ramifications for string theory and consciousness studies are also addressed.”
Can anyone provide a citation?
January 18th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Unfortunately, the chances of fetching a duplicate result are somewhat low:
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
BTW, I am working on a memetic ontology. I am not kidding
- Jamie
January 19th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Yeah my first reaction was that this was - like the PostModernism generator linked above, an output of the Dada engine. But it seems to be a hand-crafted April fool’s gag.
http://nonplatonic.com/collin.php?title=when_people_with_too_much_education_try&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/archive/t-371532.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/01/2011251
January 20th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
The funny thing was that it wasn’t completely gibberish to me. Does that imply my mind is quite sick…?
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 am
I found this saved as a document in my “personal” folder today when I was doing a bit of clearing out. Googled the first line to see what it was and why I’d kept it and found this message board. As Dan Brickley says, the clue is in the date: “Available online 1 April 2005″.