Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity

Publisher:  Social Text 46-47, Spring/Summer 1996: 217-252
Year Published:  1996
Pages:  36pp   Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX8304

Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.

Subject Headings

• Absurdity
• Bullshit
• Gravity
• Hoaxes
• Humour
• Jokes
• Post-Modernism
• Post-Structuralism
• Pseudoscience
• Quantum Gravity
• Science