sadness of america/bad postmodernism

[John Doe]

I have the book that article was made into, and I
recommend it to every Derrida-head out there: It's
titled "Fashionable Nonsense", and does a blow-by-blow
citation of certain Lit Crit Gurus who abused the
terms and meanings of science in their writings...good
stuff..if anything, I find Sokal to be TOO apologetic;
like he's trying to correct the mistakes and gross
misuse but also ameliorating the hurt feelings of
Post-Modernists Honchos...it's a fun read...

--- Mark Brawner <mark.brawner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/11/05, Sean Mannion
> <third_eye_unmoved at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > And while we're all on the ludicrous aspects of
> post-modernism and
> > 'intelligent design', I was reminded of an article
> on the Sokal Affair, to
> > be found here:
> >
>
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/boghossian/papers/bog_tls.html
> 
> "It appeared in April 1996, in a special double
> issue of the journal
> devoted to rebutting the charge that cultural
> studies critiques of
> science tend to be riddled with incompetence."
> 
> That is too good.  I'd forgotten that detail if I
> ever knew it.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 



	
		
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