American humanists, untutored in sociology, are knocked out by Foucault’s daring: analyze crime and punishment, prisons and penal codes! Gee, I wish I’d thought of that! Well, Foucault didn’t think of it either. It’s in Durkheim’s The Division of Labour in Society. (SAAC 1992)
What I'm aware of is that Sokal and Bricmont's book tried to say that the likes of Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze and others are "fashionable nonsense." That simply isn't correct. They just didn't work to understand the concepts and ideas.
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"It's not that you didn't like The Matrix, it's that you didn't understand it."
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At first I didn't like The Matrix, that's true. But then after watching it and being with it over repeated viewings, I did indeed come to understand it and like it better and better. Same thing, btw, with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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This looks like something you would draw in a high school art class.
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You talking out of experience?
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Well let's see I was in high school three decades ago. I assume you're still there?
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LOL you think Helen Pluckrose doesn't understand this stuff.
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This sounds like goal shifting nonsense. Let me guess, they'll have worked enough, magically enough, when they agree with you.
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I thought Sokal and co. sought *only* to address the inaccurate appropriation by critical theorists of mathematical/scientific concepts and ideas. It was the critical theorists, they argued, who ‘didn’t work to understand the concepts’...(eg lacan’s equations etc)!
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"[I] never quite understood how deconstruction was supposed to help the working class...I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them." -Sokal
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If you disagree with them, you must not truly understand them. Interesting take
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"anyone that doesn't agree with me just doesn't understand the argument" You're actually just in a nonsense field with made up rules and theories that have no real world applicability, the people that disagree with you are the ones that recognize you're running an academic scam.
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You may have read the bible, but if you dont believe in god that just means you didnt work to understand the bible.
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Please read that again to realize the idiocy of your argument.
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If there were anything of substance that could be evaluated objectively, those papers would have been rejected out of hand.
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... My lived experience and truth is that Virilio et alia are full of shit.
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What exactly about Virilio did you not like?
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How dare you question my lived experience.
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