Top 10 postmodern books

In 1996 Andrew C Bulhak of Monash University created a computer program called the Postmodernism Generator, which automatically produces imitations of postmodernist writing. “It is a literally infinite source of randomly generated, syntactically correct nonsense, distinguishable from the real thing only in being more fun to read,” reported Richard Dawkins in his paper Postmodernism Disrobed.

Here for instance is the real thing, written by the postmodern psychoanalytic theorist Felix Guattari: “We can clearly see that there is no bi-univocal correspondence between linear signifying links or archi-writing, depending on the author, and this multireferential, multi-dimensional machinic catalysis. The symmetry of scale, the transversality, the pathic non-discursive character of their expansion: all these dimensions remove us from the logic of the excluded middle and reinforce us in our dismissal of the ontological binarism we criticised previously.”

I long put off writing about postmodernism, the slippery. Hopefully my book is gibberish rather than an example of it.