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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i thought he gave bullshitters a good flogging. if intellectualism is devoid of honesty and integrity, then it's worthless posturing. sokal is my fucking hero. did he ever criticize barthes, though?
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The problem is the logical corrolaries - YES, there are
some sections of academia that are not concerned with verificationist schemas. Can you draw a broader conclusion about a whacking great slew of acadmia, including many diverse
individuals, on the basis of one magazine? It seems to me like the magazine was looking for good, provocative copy, not something (yawn) academically rigorous.
My understanding of the affair is that he's highlighted
some gaps in a flawed, incomplete system and drawn conclusions to the effect that
all of that system is flawed. Bad logic.
Anything that threatens to apply an alien logic to Derrida is going to have a hard time, methinks.