Quite apart from whether I think the Sokal Squared hoax has accomplished what its authors claim, I confess I'm astounded by the moralism & the piety about rules & procedures that so many academics are expressing. As if hoaxing were always unethical, & lacking in salutary effects.
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These academics seem entirely unaware of the distinguished history of hoaxing, seem to assume that it dates back no earlier than Sokal, have never read, e.g., Grafton on the importance of playful tricherie in the learned culture of the Renaissance...
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... the significant analogy between hoaxing and white-hat hacking; the theoretical ambitions of poker-faced documentary metafiction; Paul Coleman-Norton's ingenious "Amusing Agraphon" (1950); Ken Alder's 'forgery' in Critical Inquiry (2004); ...
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Hoaxing, in short, is good, even if the latest hoax may not live up to the fullest potential of the genre. People who hate hoaxing as such are petty functionaries.
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