ALAN SOKAL

In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo ...

Alan Sokal, best-known for his role in the 'Sokal Hoax', here turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo-science, religion, and misinformation in public life. He argues that clear thinking, combined with a respect for evidence, are of the ut ...

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Em 1996, o professor Alan Sokal, da Universidade de Nova York, submeteu à respeitada revista Social Text, da Duke University Press, um artigo satírico repleto de absurdos teóricos e citações que, apesar de autênticas, eram desprovidas de qualquer sentido além do exercício retórico. Publicado como um texto sério, o artigo foi desmascarado como um...