Thursday, March 15, 2012

You Can Get the Computer to Write Political Science For You

I asked the computer for a randomly generated gibberish sentence in political science. I got this.

The emergence of praxis functions as the conceptual frame for the legitimation of the nation-state.

That's more than a little scary. I'm pretty sure that that was the main argument of Ari Kohen's PhD thesis. Now.... we know.
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3 comments:

  1. Art Carden8:40 AM, March 16, 2012

    "The illusion of consumption functions as the conceptual frame for the systematization of exchange value."

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  2. Tom8:46 AM, March 16, 2012

    It's scary, but there is no verb. Thus, it's not a sentence.

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  3. Anonymous7:20 PM, March 16, 2012

    @Tom:

    The verb is "functions". The subject is "emergence".

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