If students are going to earn degrees, they've got to come up with dissertation topics.  And since dissertations can be written about everything under the sun, the number of topics is infinite.  Sheets of paper covered with words pile up in archives sadder than cemeteries, because no one ever visits them, not even on All Souls' Day.  Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

• post-modern
• society
• culture
• madness