The Sokal hoax: the sham that shook the academy

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I Introduction II D. Trangressing the boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum (Social Text) III Revelation and reaction D. A physicist experiments with cultural (Lingua Franca) Bruce Robbins and Andrew Ross, co-editors of Social Text, Response (Lingua Franca) Selected letters in response (Lingua Franca) IV Initial responses Linda Seebach takes academia for a ride with parody (Contra Costa Times) Mitchell Landsberg Is it or merely obscure? Scientist hoaxes academic journal (AP Wire) Janny Scott Postmodern gravity deconstructed, slyly (New York Times) John Yemma Hoakum for high-brows (Boston Globe) Stanley Fish Soakal's bad joke (New York Times) Scott McConnell When pretension reigns supreme (New York Times) Ruth Rosen A physics prof drops a bomb on the faux left (Los Angeles Times) George F. Will Smitten with gibberish (Washington Post) John Omicinski Hoax article yanks academics' legs (Gannett News Service) Katha Pollitt Promolotov cocktail (The Nation) James Terry Another dispatch from the culture (Kansas City New Times) Scholarly article in a fine (editorial) (Fort Meyers News-Press) V Foreign press coverage Euan Ferguson Illogical dons swallow hoaxer's quantum leap into gibberish (London Observer) Olavo de Carvalho parodista de si mesmo (Folha de S. Paulo) Roberto Campos A brincadeira de (Folha de S. Paulo) Marco d'Eramo Accademico sfregio a Greenwich square (Il Manifesto) A.N. Wilson When clever men think rubbish, sound the alarm bells (London Evening Standard) Denis Duclos Sokal n'est pas Socrate (Le Monde) Bruno Latour Y a-t-il une science apres le guerre froids (Le Monde) Pourquoi j'ai ecrit ma parodie (Le Monde) VI Longer essays Ellen Willis My Sokaled life (or, revenge of the nerds) (Village Voice) Michael Berube and (University of Chicago Free Press) Steven Weinberg (New York Review of Books) Paul Boghossian What the hoax ought to teach us (Times Literary Supplement) Stanley Aronowitz Alan Sokal's 'Transgression' (Dissent) Barbara Epstein Postmodernism and the Left (New Politics) Meera Nanda science wars in India (Dissent) Peter Osborne Friendly fire: The hoaxing of 'Social Text' (Radical Philosophy) Kurt Gottfried Was Sokal's hoax justified? (Physics Today) David Dickson 'Sokal Affair' takes transatlantic turn (Nature) Ken Hirschkop Cultural studies and its discontents (Social Text) Bruce Robbins Just doing your job: Some lessons from the Affair (Yale Journal of Criticism) VI Forums NYU Panel: Andrew Ross, Sokal, Ellen Willis, Stanley Aronowitz Lingua France roundtable discussion: John Brenkman, Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center and co-founder of Social Text Elizabeth Lloyd, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University David Albert, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

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