There is only one tiny problem  with this, otherwise excellent joke:
Foucault and Bourdieu as postmodernist???
Bourdieu would felt this as an insult and poor Foucault died before
postmodernist had the chance of ruining (post):) structuralism.
Cheers,
                           Andrej

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Frank Beckmann <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 3. april 2000 8:42
Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] fwd:death to post modernism?


>This is great, excellent -- I think this might even be a possible program
>for a conference on "zoo-semiotics". Thank you for the joke -- there is not
>much reason to laugh nowadays.
>
>Best, Frank
>----------
>>Von: frank scott <[log in to unmask]>
>>An: [log in to unmask]
>>Betreff: [CHOMSKY] fwd:death to post modernism?
>>Datum: Mon, 3. Apr 2000 1:51 Uhr
>>
>
>>who says the left can't laugh? wonderful stuff from a marxist
>>list....enjoy...
>>fs
>>
>>
>>                  THE ELEPHANT AND CULTURAL STUDIES
>>
>> 8:00 - Coffee and Tea
>> THE ELEPHANT AS "PHYSICAL" OTHER:
>>          Does the Elephant Exist? Zoological Hegemony vs. Cultural
>>Fabrication.
>>          Pachyderm "Evolution": Eurochronicities and Eurocentric
>>Linearity in the Late (Post)Modern Zoological Script.
>>          Tracking the Elephant Through Texts: Western Visuality vs.
>>Olfactory Perception.
>>
>> 9:30
>> THE ELEPHANT AS THEORETICAL OTHER:
>>          Tusk and Text: Reading the Elephant.
>>          Straddling Temporalitites: Evolving Feminist Theory and the
>>Grey female.
>>          Elephant Positionalities: The (Re)articulation of Class, Race,
>>and Trunk Typology.
>>
>> 11:00
>> THE ELEPHANT IN PACHYDERMOCENTRIC PERSPECTIVE:
>>          Recuperating Subjectivities: Conversations With An Elephant.
>>          The Mouse and the Elephant: The Ambiguities of Hegemonicity.
>>          Crashing Through the Forest: Valorizing the Self among
>>Elephantine Others.
>>          Voices and Trumpets: Heteroglossia and Polyphony.
>>
>>
>> 12:30 - Lunch
>>
>> THE ELEPHANT: INTERROGATING MULTI-CULTURAL RHETORICITIES:
>>          The Elephant: Cyborg, Ethnicity, or "Species"?
>>          (E)(L)(E)(P)(H)(A)(N)(T)? What's That?: Exploitation and the
>>Rhetorical Strategies of Denial in Thai Forestry       Camps
>>          Viceroy-on-Elephant or Elephant-on-Viceroy? Accidents and the
>>Uncertainties of Domination in some Durbars of the Late British Raj.
>>
>> 1:00
>> THE ELEPHANT AS EUROCENTRIC OBJECT:
>>          The Elephant and the Lion: The Metaphoricity of Binarity in
>>Early Medieval Texts.
>>          "Hunting the Beloved Other": The Elephant as Paradigmatic
>>Problematic of Conservationist Conversations in Theodore Roosevelt's
>>African Memoirs.
>>          Garage Sales and Elephants: A Dialogue of Contested Spaces.
>>
>> 2:30
>> THE ELEPHANT AS (POST)MODERNIST CONSTRICTION:
>>          Hong Kong Ivory Traders: An Enabling Proposition in Tusk
>>Commodification.
>>          (Ele)phant and Pachy(derm): The Parenthetics of Typesetting
>>Axiomatics.
>>          Reading the Elephant and Eating the Bible: Christianity and
>>the Post-Modernist Dilemma in Tropical   Pachydermophagy.
>>
>> 4:00 Tea & Cookies
>> THE ELEPHANT AS LATE POSTMODERNIST CONSTRUCTION:
>>         Post-Modern, (Post)Modern, or Postcontemporary Elephant?
>>Epistemic Privileging and Discursive Spaces in MLA Debates.
>>         Wild Elephant, Tamed Elephant, Zoo-Confined Elephant, Extinct
>>Elephant:
>> Alternative Modernities for a Culturally-Constructed Ani(male).
>>          Elephant Ears: Symbolic Excess in (Post)Nouvelle Pastry
>>Culture.
>>          Situating the Paradigmatic Other: The Elephant in Weight-Loss
>>Discourse.
>>
>> 5:30
>> CONCLUSION - THE EXPISTEMIC MOMENT:
>>          "Mon Dieu, Bourdieu!" "Foucault yourself!": Bad Temper and
>>Cultural Enunciations in Academic Career-construction.
>>
>> 8:00 Reception and Dance