The Dada Engine is a system for the nondeterministic generation of ASCII data from grammars using recursive transition networks; or, in English, it is a system for generating random text using rules. Rules are specified in a language named pb, which looks a little like yacc, only a good deal more bogus. The language is documented in the Dada Engine manual which is supplied in Texinfo and PostScript formats.
Release 1.01 is a bugfix release which fixes a problem with regular expression substitutions in 1.0. Nothing else is changed.
Firstly, run the shell script named "configure" in the Dada Engine distribution directory. This will check the characteristics of your system and (hopefully) set up the makefiles and headers in a way that will work. configure, by default, sets the installation directories in which the Dada Engine will be installed to /usr/local; if you wish to install the Dada Engine elsewhere, you can specify a different location by running configure with the "--prefix=pathname" argument, i.e., "./configure --prefix=$HOME" will install the system in your home directory.
Then run "make" in the distribution directory; this will compile the Dada Engine. Afterwards, for it to properly work, you must install it by running "make install".
Several sample scripts are provided in the `scripts' subdirectory. These include:
brag.pb* A SubGenius brag generator
crackpot.pb A crackpot rant generator
eqn.pb A generator of bogus equations (in LaTeX format)
exam.pb A script to generate intimidating-looking but bogus
examination questions. (unfinished)
legal.pb* A script to generate legalese.
loop.pb* A script that produces itself as output
manifesto.pb A manifesto generator
pomo.pb The Postmodernism Generator; now outputs in any
format supported by the format library
silly-word.pb A silly word generator
spout.pb* The SubGenius Profunditied Generation Matrix
I am grateful to Mitchell Porter for testing the language and coding several of the example scripts, to the Department of Computer Science at Monash University for facilities and support, to Jamie Cameron for his part in the conspiracy to develop this system and to Brandon Long and kristin buxton for their help with getting the Dada Engine to work with Solaris 2.x.
Andrew C. Bulhak acb@dev.null.org 45 Discord 3162
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{\xi}^{3}-79 {\xi}^{2}+58 {\xi} + 02}}In the works of Pynchon, a predominant concept is the distinction between destruction and creation. However, an abundance of narratives concerning capitalist discourse exist. Derridaist reading holds that the collective is meaningless, given that Foucault's critique of predialectic neoconstructivist theory is invalid.
"Truth is part of the paradigm of consciousness," says Lyotard. Thus, Tilton[1] states that we have to choose between capitalist discourse and modern nationalism. The subject is contextualised into a Derridaist reading that includes reality as a totality. The creation/destruction distinction intrinsic to Gravity's Rainbow emerges again in Gravity's Rainbow. Derrida uses the term 'cultural conceptualism' to denote not, in fact, theory, but posttheory.
"Class is responsible for capitalism," says Baudrillard; however, according to Brophy[2] , it is not so much class that is responsible for capitalism, but rather the rubicon, and some would say the defining characteristic, of class. Pickett[3] implies that we have to choose between Derridaist reading and modern nationalism. In a sense, the premise of capitalist discourse implies that discourse is created by the masses. Baudrillard uses the term 'capitalist discourse' to denote the bridge between society and sexual identity.
But a number of sublimations concerning the absurdity of textual sexual identity may be found. Marx promotes the use of Derridaist reading to modify truth.
The main theme of Hamburger's[4] model of semioticist deappropriation is a mythopoetical whole. It could be said that the subject is interpolated into a modern nationalism that includes culture as a paradox.
Sontag's analysis of capitalist discourse suggests that the goal of the writer is deconstruction. However, Lyotard uses the term 'Derridaist reading' to denote the role of the reader as participant.
If postcapitalist theory holds, we have to choose between modern nationalism and Derridaist reading. In a sense, any number of discourses concerning the dialectic, and some would say the stasis, of subconceptual sexual identity exist.
"Society is fundamentally unattainable," says Bataille; however, according to de Selby[5] , it is not so much society that is fundamentally unattainable, but rather the meaninglessness of society. In The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, Burroughs denies modern nationalism; in Port of Saints, although, Burroughs deconstructs modern nationalism. It could be said that Derrida suggests the use of precultural feminism to read and analyse class.
The primary theme of Wilson's[6] essay on Derridaist reading is not narrative, but postnarrative. Debord uses the term 'capitalist discourse' to denote the role of the observer as reader. Therefore, the subject is interpolated into a modern nationalism that includes art as a reality.
Thus, the characteristic theme of the works of Burroughs is the failure, and subsequent collapse, of textual language.
Marx promotes the use of Foucaultist power relations to deconstruct the status quo. However, la Fournier[7] suggests that the works of Burroughs are modernistic.
Many sublimations concerning the difference between society and sexual identity may be discovered.
In a sense, if Derridaist reading holds, we have to choose between modern nationalism and neomodernist theory. Sartre's critique of capitalist discourse implies that consciousness is capable of truth. But Dahmus[8] suggests that the works of Burroughs are not postmodern. It could be said that Lacan uses the term 'modern nationalism' to denote the economy, and hence the fatal flaw, of patriarchialist society. The subject is contextualised into a capitalist discourse that includes narrativity as a totality.
1. Tilton, B. Y. N. (1984) The Concensus of Futility: Capitalist discourse, rationalism and Sartreist absurdity. And/Or Press
4. Hamburger, U. ed. (1970) Capitalist discourse in the works of Burroughs. Loompanics
6. Wilson, I. E. L. (1972) Capitalist discourse and Derridaist reading. O'Reilly & Associates
8. Dahmus, A. G. ed. (1971) Derridaist reading and capitalist discourse. Schlangekraft