Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Post Modern Parody

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Posted by ccwbass (Member # 1850) on :

Remember the Alan Sorkal affair? Sorkal was the NYU Professor of Physics whose paper "Trangressing the Boundries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" was published in "Social Text," Duke University's social studies journal. Unknown to the editors of "Social Text" was that Sorkal's paper was a parody, a hoax, that, if nothing else, highlighted the incoherence that is today's humanities vocabulary.

Give it a read; it's like going back to college.

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/

[This message has been edited by ccwbass (edited February 13, 2004).]

Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :

Who could forget?

Posted by ccwbass (Member # 1850) on :

Posted by EricJamesStone (Member # 1681) on :

All the post-modern essays you'll ever need:
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/

Posted by ccwbass (Member # 1850) on :

Oh. My. Goodness.

This link's a keeper. Thanks, Eric!

Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :

Hey, does anyone know whether the bibliographcal referances are made up too?

Posted by Jules (Member # 1658) on :

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In a sense, if textual nihilism holds, the works of Joyce are not postmodern. A number of narratives concerning a self-sufficient whole may be found.

LOL