SokalHoax
Last edit April 13, 2006
Alan Sokal's exposure of the
FashionableNonsense
of (some)
PostModern
ists by having a spoof essay, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", published in
Social Text
in 1996.
His hoax was so notorious that a book (ISBN 0803279957) was written about its ramifications - see
http://bookshelved.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TheSokalHoax
.
Alan Sokal is Professor of Physics at New York University.
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair