Sokal Affair
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The Sokal affair was an experiment by physicist Alan Sokal perpetrated on the editorial staff and readership of the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text. In 1996, Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, submitted a paper for publication in Social Text, as an experiment to see if a journal in that field would, in Sokal''s words: "publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if it sounded good and it flattered the editors'' ideological…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The Sokal affair was an experiment by physicist Alan Sokal perpetrated on the editorial staff and readership of the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text. In 1996, Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, submitted a paper for publication in Social Text, as an experiment to see if a journal in that field would, in Sokal''s words: "publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if it sounded good and it flattered the editors'' ideological preconceptions." The paper argued that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct.