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by tinideiznaimnou 1087 days ago
See also, the Sokal affair, and the Postmodernism Generator (https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/). Though that one's coming back to bite us in the butt, what with the LLMs and all.

A pity really - I still believe that actual, rigorous deconstruction of a text is technically feasible, and used to wonder why nobody is even trying.

Of course, a humanities scholar with the hacker rigor doesn't become a literary theorist or think tank talking head - they become a badass fiction writer that we probably haven't heard of.