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New page: '''Social Text''' is a postmodern cultural studies journal at Duke University. It became notorious when Alan Sokal published ''Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformativ...
'''Social Text''' is a [[postmodern]] cultural studies journal at [[Duke University]]. It became notorious when Alan Sokal published ''Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity''. It was an article that was essentially jargon and nonsense with a few jokes thrown in, but because Sokal was a well-known physicist who seemingly promoted left-wing views, the journal accepted his entry and published it as fact. The day after his paper was published, Sokal announced in ''[[Lingua Franca]]'' that his entry had been a hoax and was basically "a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense".