Reassembling Post-Human Hermeneutics: An Essay about Sub-semiotic Totalities in Modern Culture

If you, like me, have at some point flirted with Post-modernist theory and all it entails, you may be aware of the immense possibilities for gibberish. Though a lot of the ideas explained to me by friends who did go down this road seemed appealing, reading Derrida or Heidegger always bored me much more than my desire to learn. There is actually a point to their use of language, but let's not forget that the field is also littered with people faking it, or just not making sense outside of their own heads. The basic problem as I see it, is that inexpertly deconstructing things is analogous to throwing a frog in a blender instead of dissecting it. If you can't take certain things as a given, you simply won't find anything useful. This page is a comprehensive archive of the discussion sparked off by physicist Alan Sokal when he decided to create a random article generator and publish the results. Hilarious fun for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
And this link lets you make your own. Enjoy!