Folks, I know way more important things are going on in the world. But I honestly find it nuts that so many people in the serious reaches of academia and the thoughtful left are simply dismissing Sokal Squared. Here’s my response to the main criticisms. (Thread.)
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Take for example the dog-park rape-culture article. In principle there's nothing wrong with studying animal 'cultures' as mirrors of human ones. This is e.g. what the anthropologist Tim Ingold does with Saami reindeer herders, & the results he comes up with are wonderful & impt.
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Another real article from one of the pranked journals that is now being ridiculed is on 'pumpkins and whiteness'. It is bad, but the idea of studying the symbolic & ideological valence of food products is not bad. It is what Bourdieu did, again, to wonderful and important effect.
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