(In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, published "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" in Social Text, a quarterly journal of cultural and political analysis. Almost simultaneously he also published "A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies" in Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life, revealing that the first article was a hoax, a parody of "postmodern epistemology." Controversy ensued, and the pot continueth to boil. For anyone as yet unfamiliar with l'affaire Sokal, here is a modest introduction.
-- JR Foley
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Ø: Sokal's second shot: "A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies," Lingua Franca, May/June 1996, pp. 62-64. Ø: Sokal on Sokal: Sokal's own Home Page and Another Page Ø: "Professor Sokal's Bad Joke" by Stanley Fish, The New York Times Ø: "Science smiling into its beard, or first full-dress encounter with evil" by Carlo Parcelli Ø: "goliath AGAIN" by Joe Brennan
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