Aiakon2005-11-23 10:11:49
Shiri2005-11-23 10:24:01
That was awesome.
Iridiel2005-11-23 11:03:39
OMG This is great. It looks better than many essays going around in academic circles, and has the same amount of meaning than they do!
Aiakon2005-11-23 11:19:26
I just sit reading it and giggle. Not one sentence makes even the slightest bit of sense... and I spend a fair bit of my time reading psychoanalytic criticism. (Correction: I used to do work once. Now I sit on these bloody forums all day long and prepare to fail my degree)
If you follow the link on the page to Sokal's stuff, it quickly becomes hilarious. I *cannot* believe he was published... but I guess it's like the Emperor's new clothes. The Editors of Social Text clearly couldn't follow the article, they couldn't admit that to each other if they wanted to keep a shred of academic credibility, so they published it, hoping for the best. Just shows. Good writing = clear writing.
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If you enjoy this, you might also enjoy reading about the Social Text Affair, where NYU Physics Professor Alan Sokal's brilliant(ly meaningless) hoax article was accepted by a cultural criticism publication.
If you follow the link on the page to Sokal's stuff, it quickly becomes hilarious. I *cannot* believe he was published... but I guess it's like the Emperor's new clothes. The Editors of Social Text clearly couldn't follow the article, they couldn't admit that to each other if they wanted to keep a shred of academic credibility, so they published it, hoping for the best. Just shows. Good writing = clear writing.
