* " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " by Alan Sokal, ( Spring / Summer 1996 issue of Social Text ).

In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal wrote a nonsensical article entitled " Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ".

The journal Social Text published the paper in its Spring / Summer 1996 issue, whereupon Sokal publicly revealed his hoax.

On its date of publication ( May 1996 ), Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as " a pastiche of Left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense.

In the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ", Sokal revealed that his " Transgressing the Boundaries " was a hoax and concluded that Social Text " felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject " because of its ideological proclivities and editorial bias.

To illustrate what he believed to be the intellectual weaknesses of social constructionism and postmodernism, in 1996, physics professor Alan Sokal submitted an article to the academic journal Social Text that was written purposely to be incomprehensible, but included phrases and jargon typical of articles published in the journal.

* Sokal Affair: Alan Sokal, " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ," Lingua Franca, May / June, 1996.

He is best known for his criticism of postmodernism, resulting in the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University's Social Text.

Sokal is best known to the general public for the Sokal Affair of 1996.

One such example is Alan Sokal's " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " ( 1996 ), in which Sokal submitted a seemingly real, but nonsensical, paper to the Journal Social Text in order to show that a supposedly serious journal in postmodern theory would accept a meaningless paper if it used sufficiently impenetrable language.

" Baez was comparing the Bogdanovs ' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted an intentionally nonsensical paper to a cultural studies journal in order to criticize the incoherence of postmodernism.

Hence, and elsewhere, on publication day, in the May 1996 edition of the Lingua Franca journal, in the article “ A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ”, Prof. Sokal announced that his transformative hermeneutics article was a parody, submitted “ to test the prevailing intellectual standards ”, concluding that, as an academic publication, Social Text ignored the requisite intellectual rigor of verification and “ felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject .” Moreover, as a public intellectual, Prof. Sokal said his hoax was an action protesting against the contemporary tendency towards obscurantism — abstruse, esoteric, and vague writing in the social sciences:

The journal gained notoriety in 1996 for the so-called Sokal affair, when it published an article that physicist Alan Sokal had deliberately written as a hoax.

In 1996, postmodern theorists of the sociology of scientific knowledge ( SSK ) were the targets of a hoax paper by Alan Sokal in the journal Social Text, under the title Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

Later, in the May 1996 issue of Lingua Franca, in the article " A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ", Prof. Sokal exposed his parody-article, " Transgressing the Boundaries " as an experiment testing the intellectual rigor of an academic journal that would " publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if ( a ) it sounded good and ( b ) it flattered the editors ’ ideological preconceptions ".

* Sokal, Alan D. ( 1996 ).

" He defended the journal from criticism after it published a hoax article in its Summer 1996 issue ( see Sokal Affair ).

In 1996 he was one of the journal's editors who published a paper by Alan Sokal professing to show connections between physics and post-modern theory, and which was later revealed by Sokal to be a hoax meant to expose the low academic standards of " post-modernism " ( see Sokal affair ).

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Anderson, who still had the workprint of his original cut, submitted the film which was accepted and screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

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In 1996, Sir TL decided to contest the first ever Chief Executive election and submitted his resignation to then governor Chris Patten.

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) In 1993, the voters approved a two-term ( eight-year ) limit, and reconfirmed this limit when the issue was submitted to referendum in 1996.

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The Congressional investigation continued ; on March 21, 1996, Hillary Clinton submitted a deposition under oath to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, again acknowledging concern about irregularities in the Travel Office but denying a direct role in the firings and expressing a lack of recollection to a number of questions.

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In a 1996 article for The Independent about a talk former Prime Minister Edward Heath gave at a Unification Church sponsored conference, Andrew Brown commented: " The term ' Moonie ' has entered the language as meaning a brainwashed, bright-eyed zombie.

Abu Daoud was allowed safe passage through Israel in 1996 so he could attend a PLO meeting convened in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of rescinding an article in its charter that called for Israel's eradication.

The article " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity ", published in the Social Text Spring / Summer 1996 " Science Wars " issue, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct.

" Nonetheless, despite designating the physicist as a " difficult, uncooperative author ," and noting that such writers were " well known to journal editors ", Social Text published the article in acknowledgment of the author's credentials in the May 1996 Spring / Summer " Science Wars " issue.

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The earliest known reference to the term spamdexing is by Eric Convey in his article " Porn sneaks way back on Web ," The Boston Herald, May 22, 1996, where he said:

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*" Testilying: Police Perjury and What To Do About It " article originally appearing in the University of Colorado Law Review in 1996

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* A 1996 New York Times article recounting the story of the bombing and the ensuing trial

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