
Alan Sokal
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Aug 21, 2026
S8 Ep1320: Peter Berkowitz reflects on the 30th anniversary of Alan Sokal's famous academic hoax, which exposed the intellectual decline within higher education humanities. Berkowitz critiques contemporary humanities departments for their ideological hypocrisy: prof
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1:28Peter BerkowitzGUEST
Well, I suppose you have to be, um, an advanced physicist to really understand what quantum gravity is, but o- one thing's for sure.
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1:38Peter BerkowitzGUEST
Um, quant-- Contrary to the title of Alan Sokal's, uh, essay in the magazine Social Text, nothing about quantum gravity paved the way toward a transfer-- transformative hermeneutics, and nothing about quantum gravity, uh, would enable one to transgress intellectual boundaries in cultural studies.
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2:00Peter BerkowitzGUEST
Nevertheless, this was the core argument of this article that, uh, editors of Social Text, a academic journal published by Duke University Press, published in the summer of 1996.
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2:13Peter BerkowitzGUEST
It was an article jam-packed with nonsense.