Postmodernism Has Forgotten How To Laugh

Pataphysics and the hilarity of humorless academics

By all accounts, postmodernism is charting new territory in the world of high-brow comedy. Serious academics have unwittingly become outrageous, laugh-till-you-cry satirists. Scholarly journals have morphed into esoteric, bizarro-world sister publications to Mad Magazine and The Onion.