Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Sokal Debate (fwd)


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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 15:03:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
To: marxism-international-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Cc: Catherine Anne Cook <cac10-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Sokal Debate

(Will somebody please post this on Marxism-science and m2 or whatever the
hell else we got going now.)

Lou

>From sokal-AT-acf4.NYU.EDU Fri Oct 18 15:00:45 1996
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:51:15 -0400
From: Alan Sokal <sokal-AT-acf4.NYU.EDU>
To: lnp3-AT-columbia.edu
Cc: dhenwood-AT-panix.com
Subject: Public Forum on the "Social Text" Affair

Dear Lou,

   Thought you might be interested in the enclosed public forum on the
"Social Text" affair, which Ellen Willis and I have organized.
Please do publicize it on the Marxism lists, to your friends, etc.
I'm looking forward to seeing you again!

	Best, Alan


			       PUBLIC FORUM

			   After the Media Event:
		Politics, Culture, and the _Social Text_ Affair

			Wednesday, October 30, 1996
				  7:30 PM
			       121 Meyer Hall
			    2-4 Washington Place
			    New York University

			     Open to the public
			     Admission is free


The Cultural Reporting and Criticism program in New York University's
Department of Journalism will host a panel discussion, "After the Media Event:
Politics, Culture, and the _Social Text_ Affair", on Wednesday, October 30
at 7:30 PM.  The event will provide a forum for airing the political and
cultural issues raised by the controversial incident in which physicist
Alan Sokal published an article in the cultural studies journal _Social Text_,
then announced that the article was a parody meant to expose postmodernist
arguments about science as nonsense.  The hoax made titillating headlines,
but it has also inspired serious debate about the responsibilities of
intellectuals and the role of cultural theory on the left.


SPEAKERS:

Alan Sokal, NYU Physics Department

Andrew Ross, director of NYU's American Studies program and editor of the
   "Science Wars" issue of _Social Text_ in which Sokal's parody appeared

Ellen Willis, director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program
   and author of the _Village Voice_ article "My Sokaled Life"

Stanley Aronowitz, director of the Center for Cultural Studies at
   CUNY Graduate Center and a founder and former editor of _Social Text_


MODERATOR:

Jay Rosen, NYU Journalism Department and Project on Public Life and the Press


CONTACT:

Margaret Lee, (212) 998-3786, mjl6089-AT-is4.nyu.edu





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