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1998-11-01 09:00:00+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Alan Sokal is the physicist who, two years ago, wrote a parody of postmodernism and got it published in the journal Social Text. The publishers of Social Text weren't smart enough to recognize it as a parody, but that makes sense because postmodernism tends to do that to itself anyway. The english version of his book, Fashionable Nonsense, is coming to the U.S. soon, and Salon magazine has a review of it. I wait with bated breath and high hopes.

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