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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I'm made very uncomfortable by the anti-intellectual & incurious mockery of studying dog-parks & pumpkin flavouring, & want to insist that the anthropology of culture & study of everyday life need to be reclaimed, not rejected.
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