Making decision to stop reading Latour's impenetrable gibberish & apply soothing Hume instead. Emperor will be visibly clothed in no time.
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@PhilosophyExp I love the Sokal paper (along with Nussbaums attack on Butler & the online postmodernist essay generator).
@SteveCooke I was once lucky enough to get an invite to a dinner with Sokal at his house. Interesting guy. Ironically, very left wing.
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@PhilosophyExp so cool. Not sure it's ironic he's left wing though: obfuscatory gibberish isn't a necessary condition of left-wing thought! -
@SteveCooke that notion was - but they weren't having any of it. They saw it as a right wing attack on the academic humanities. -
@PhilosophyExp that's rather tragic. -
@SteveCooke Yup. And the audience was largely academic. One of the main "offenders" had a Chair in Education. -
@PhilosophyExp [insert some comment about oppressive use of power by elites to socially construct knowledge & identity here]
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