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To: gao seng who wrote (609)	5/15/2001 10:58:31 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

Short version is this: Alan Sokal is a physicist who submitted an article parodying postmodernism to a prominent postmodern publication called "The Social Text". The article, entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", was full of absurdities, contradictions, bad references, etc. The Social Text published the article as a serious piece. After exposing the article as a parody, Alan Sokal got alot of attention and acquired a pulpit from which to rail against postmodernism.