Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 09:25:55 +0100
Subject: Re: SOKAL AND ETHICS


Jukka makes a pretty good general point here, one well worthy of discussion
on m2 on the basis of our own experience:

>Yeah, he used some unorthodox methods - so what? Best ways
>to study 'rules' and the like (their strenght etc.) are
>violating them (or at least trying to do it). Unfortunately
>there are several laws restricting us...

Perhaps we could provide examples of how we've learnt about the 'real'
rules of some activity or other, and the reach of the 'laws' in force
there?

I think areas like freedom of expression and so on might be interesting --
so we could see the methods used to constrain the operations of claimed
democratic rights in bourgeois democratic societies.

I've got an interesting example very close to home, but unfortunately the
rules  preclude me from discussing it, so I won't.

Cheers,

Hugh




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