{"id":1275,"date":"2006-08-14T18:36:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T22:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2006-08-14T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T22:39:50","slug":"communications-from-elsewhere-%c2%bb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Communications From Elsewhere \u00ac\u00aa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/journal\/\">Communications From Elsewhere<\/a> is a journal (not blog!) by Josh Larios with some interesting text generators including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/pomo\">Postmodernism Generator<\/a> which randomly generates &#8220;completely meaningless&#8221; essays using a modified version of <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.null.org\/dadaengine\/\">The Dada Engine<\/a> written by <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.null.org\/\">Andrew C. Bulhak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on The Dada Engine see the technical report from Monash University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csse.monash.edu.au\/cgi-bin\/pub_search?104+1996+bulhak+Postmodernism\">On the simulation of postmodernism and mental debility using recursive transition networks<\/a>. The Abstract reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recursive transition networks are an abstraction related to context-free grammars and finite-state automata. It is possible, to generate random, meaningless and yet realistic-looking text in genres defined using recursive transition networks, often with quite amusing results. One genre in which this has been accomplished is that of academic papers on postmodernism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Josh has collected and connected different &#8220;Text Generators&#8221; to his journal, including an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/hbzpoetry\/\">Adolescent Poetry Corner<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/timecube\/\">Time Cube<\/a> screed generator. (For an explanation of Gene Ray&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timecube.com\/\">Time Cube<\/a> theory see <a href=\"http:\/\/dmitrybrant.com\/timecube\">DmitryBrant.com \u00ac\u00aa On Time Cube<\/a>. The Time Cube site is another story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications From Elsewhere is a journal (not blog!) by Josh Larios with some interesting text generators including a Postmodernism Generator which randomly generates &#8220;completely meaningless&#8221; essays using a modified version of The Dada Engine written by Andrew C. Bulhak. For more on The Dada Engine see the technical report from Monash University, On the simulation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Communications From Elsewhere \u00ac\u00aa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-playful-or-cool","category-programming","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}