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Re: the arrogance of postmodern mumbo jumbo
Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com)
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 18:49:51 -0800
Stephen Barnard wrote:
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> In May, 1996 Alan Sokal, a physicist at NYU, published a paper in
> _Social_Text_, a leading journal of cultural studies. The title of this
> paper was "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative
> Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity."
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> It was transparent bullshit, or a brilliant parody, depending on your
> point of view. Sokal's intention was to see whether such a journal
> would accept this parody at face value, just because it parroted the
> required postmodern jargon and reached the politically correct
> conclusions that the editors liked.
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I'm still waiting for a representative of the campus left to reply to
this. The silence is deafening.
Steve Barnard
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