Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 12:22:58 -0500
Subject: Re: SERIOUS SOKAL DISCUSSION?


At 12:29 AM 5/27/96, Keith Alan Sprouse wrote:

>Perhaps this is an old debate, one that has already involved a great deal of
>true argumentation long before I joined this list.  And if that is the case,
>then please tell me to keep quiet and I'll go try to find it somewhere in
>the archives... but if not, then rather than replicate the bad scholarship
>and argumentation that Sokal undertook in jest, perhaps those who have
>problems with the postmodern/post-marxist/cultural studies people in
>question (or perhaps even with any who would practice such theoretical
>approaches) could explain why.  At this point, all that the condemnations
>have shown me is that many of you don't like Aronowitz (name calling even?
>c'mon!).  What I'd like to know, and what would make this a discussion as
>opposed to a popularity contest, would be if somebody would make an argument
>as to why the dynamic duo (R & A) are so terribly wrong.

Well, to start with, if they can't smell bullshit, or pass along a
submitted paper to a physicist with an appropriately trained nose, then
maybe it's because their noses have lost all sensitivity to the stuff,
being so deeply immersed in it.

Doug

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