The hoax is exposed in the article:
"A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies" by Alan D. Sokal
Lingua Franca , May/June 1996, pp.62-64.
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The editorial in Social Text in response to Sokal's exposure:
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Sokal's reply to Social Text Editorial:
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Sokal's reply to an op-ed piece by Stanley Fish in New York Times, which the paper refused to publish in entirety. Sokal withdrew the letter from publication as a result. Postscript
Here is my own celebration of Sokal's effort, published in
Frontline Vol. 13, No.9, Sept. 21-Oct. 4.
"Exposing Anti-Science: The Sokal Affair"
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Sokal's article was published as part of a special issue on science studies that is to appear with further additions as a book to be published by Duke University Press. A mathematician comments on the other articles in the same issue of Social Text.
"A Mathematician Reads Social Text" by Michael C. Sullivan
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A British sociologist, Steve Fuller, defends the post-modernists. HTML Version
A physicist, Lawrence Krauss, in appreciation of Sokal. HTML Version
A note from The Scientist, by Irving M. Klotz. HTML Version
Another mathematician, Evans M. Harrell II, appreciates Sokal's effort. HTML Version
A defence by Bruce Robbins, Co-Editor, Social Text. HTML Version
Yet another defence by Bruce Robbins. HTML Version
A note published in The Nation. HTML Version
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