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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

By Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont
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By Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont
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In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text—an influential academic journal of cultural studies—touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy.

Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad.

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