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In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism.nbsp;And the point the essay tried to make was counterintuitive: gravity, Sokal argued, was a fiction that society had agreed upon, and science needed to be liberated from its ideological blinders. When Sokal revealed in the pages of Lingua Franca that he had written the article as a parody, the story hit the front page of the New York Times. It set off a national debate still raging today: Are scholars in the humanities trapped in a jargon-ridden Wonderland? Are scientists deluded in thinking their work is objective? Are literature professors suffering from science envy? Was Sokal's joke funny? Was the Enlightenment such a bad thing after all? And isn't it a little bit true that the meaning of gravity is contingent upon your cultural perspective? Collected here for the first time are Sokal's original essay on "quantum gravity," his essay revealing the hoax, the newspaper articles that broke the story, and the angry op-eds, letters, and e-mail exchanges sparked by the hoax from intellectuals across the country, including Stanley Fish, George F. Will, Michael Bérubé, and Katha Pollitt. Also included are extended essays in which a wide range of scholars ponder the long-term lessons of the hoax.… (más)
In 1996, Alan Sokal, a physicist at NYU, cobbled together what he considered to be some of the most egregious quotes by postmodernists on the relation between science and society, tied them together with strident left-wing commentary and extreme anti-realist statements, and sent it off to the left-wing cultural journal Social Text under the title: "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". His article was accepted for publication, and about the same time it appeared Sokal revealed (in the magazine Lingua Franca) that his article was a hoax. Despite Sokal's own leftist political views, he was sick and tired of what he saw as the dishonest way that academic leftists were abusing science and common sense in furthering their political goals, and he saw this as a way of protesting their actions.
In The Sokal Hoax, the editors of _Lingua Franca_ have brought together in one volume Sokal's original article along with a lot of the things that were written (by both critics and supporters of Sokal) in response. I found this book to be very entertaining. For those who know some set theory, footnote 54 of Sokal's article contains some delicious puns which, by themselves, would have tipped off the editors of _Social Text_ that Sokal was pulling their leg if they had really been competent to referee his paper. Like some postmodernists, I guess, I sometimes think scientists get too big for their britches, but I think the theories many postmodernists have concocted to cut science down to size are many times worse. ( )
An excellent collection of essays covering the little professor who said that the Postmodernist emperor had no clothes. The original paper is included in full, and is hilarious. Some of the replies and responses are unintentionally funny, as well. ( )
In May 1996, Alan Sokal had published in Social Text an extraordinary article that,inter alia, suggested that physicists were questioning existence (not to mention gravity). This is the story of the hoax, why it was perpetuated and what some of the outcomes were. ( )
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May 18, 1996, was not a slow news day. The front page of the New York Times featured the suicide of the highest-ranking officer in the navy, claims that Bob Dole resigned from the Senate under political siege, and a photograph of President Clinton signing a law against child molesters. And yet the editors of the Times also found room that day for a front-page item about an obscure NYU physics professor who had published an article in an academic journal. What made this a top story? Exactly this: the physicist's article had been revealed as a hoax. It was a hodgepodge of unsupported arguments, outright mistakes, and impenetrable jargon designed to "test" its host journal's intellectual integrity. Apparently the journal had failed.
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In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism.nbsp;And the point the essay tried to make was counterintuitive: gravity, Sokal argued, was a fiction that society had agreed upon, and science needed to be liberated from its ideological blinders. When Sokal revealed in the pages of Lingua Franca that he had written the article as a parody, the story hit the front page of the New York Times. It set off a national debate still raging today: Are scholars in the humanities trapped in a jargon-ridden Wonderland? Are scientists deluded in thinking their work is objective? Are literature professors suffering from science envy? Was Sokal's joke funny? Was the Enlightenment such a bad thing after all? And isn't it a little bit true that the meaning of gravity is contingent upon your cultural perspective? Collected here for the first time are Sokal's original essay on "quantum gravity," his essay revealing the hoax, the newspaper articles that broke the story, and the angry op-eds, letters, and e-mail exchanges sparked by the hoax from intellectuals across the country, including Stanley Fish, George F. Will, Michael Bérubé, and Katha Pollitt. Also included are extended essays in which a wide range of scholars ponder the long-term lessons of the hoax.
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In The Sokal Hoax, the editors of _Lingua Franca_ have brought together in one volume Sokal's original article along with a lot of the things that were written (by both critics and supporters of Sokal) in response. I found this book to be very entertaining. For those who know some set theory, footnote 54 of Sokal's article contains some delicious puns which, by themselves, would have tipped off the editors of _Social Text_ that Sokal was pulling their leg if they had really been competent to referee his paper. Like some postmodernists, I guess, I sometimes think scientists get too big for their britches, but I think the theories many postmodernists have concocted to cut science down to size are many times worse. (