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Alan Sokal

Alan Sokal

American professor of mathematicsWikipedia

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Aug 21, 2026

Peter BerkowitzGUEST
1:28
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.
Peter BerkowitzGUEST
1:38
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.
Peter BerkowitzGUEST
2:00
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.
Peter BerkowitzGUEST
2:13
It was an article jam-packed with nonsense.

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