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In the second book of the trilogy, "Small World" (1984), Morris Zapp, an astute theorist lecturing at a conference, uses the striptease style supposedly popular in the nudist go-go bars of Berkeley, California, as a metaphor of what continental theory has discovered about language:“This is not striptease, it is all strip and no tease, it is the terpsichorean equivalent of the hermeneutic fallacy of recoverable meaning, according to which if we remove the covering of its rhetoric from a literary text we discover the bare facts that it is. trying to communicate."It is the beginning of a long and hilarious comic monologue on poststructuralist theory, all the more effective because, like the previous one, it is actually analysable. It is also obscene, so much so that during its performance “a ...

To members of his synagogue, the voice that blared from the speakers at Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like that of Rabbi Josh Fixler.At the same steady pace his congregation had grown accustomed to, the voice delivered a sermon on what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fixler went to the bimah himself.“The audio you heard a moment ago might sound like my words,” he said. "But they weren't."The recording was created by what Rabbi Fixler called the “Rabbi Bot,” an AI chatbot trained on his old sermons. The chatbot, created with the help of a data scientist, wrote the sermon, also delivering it in an AI version of its voice. During the remainder of the service, Rabbi Fixler intermittently asked Rabbi Bot questions aloud, which he prom...