Food For Thought Lecture Series—Postmodernism Gets Punked: How Alan Sokal Soaked Social Text

Starts
Wednesday, July 8th 2009 at 6:59 pm
Ends
Wednesday, July 8th 2009 at 8:29 pm
Location
Old Quarry Branch Library

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Physicist Alan Sokal decided to show how lacking in critical thinking and basic scientific literacy some left wing social science postmodernist thinkers can be. He sent a completely jargon-laden, content-void article to the journal Social Text to see if it would be published -- it was.