Another criticism is that universities tend more to pseudo-intellectualism than intellectualism per se ; for example, to protect their positions and prestige, academicians may over-complicate problems and express them in obscure language ( e. g., the Sokal affair, a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal attempting to show that American humanities professors invoke complicated, pseudoscientific jargon to support their political positions.

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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.

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" 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.

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.

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The Bad Writing Contest emerged in an intellectual climate dominated by fallout from the Sokal affair, in which the alleged opaqueness and obscurity of postmodern writing came in for criticism: Edward Said, for instance, deplored " diminishment and incoherence " in the writings of some of his colleagues and Martha Nussbaum condemned academic writing that was " ponderous and obscure.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on these issues has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

The Sokal Affair is another, though this controversy also involved many other issues.

He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense ( also known as Intellectual Impostures ) with Alan Sokal, in which they criticise relativism in the philosophy of science.

They also suggest that, in criticising Irigaray, Sokal and Bricmont sometimes go beyond their area of expertise in the sciences and simply express a differing position on gender politics.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

Amerzone ( also known as Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy ) is a first-person adventure game produced by French company Microïds, and designed by Benoît Sokal.

He has also dealt with current matters in his songs like the brutal killing of fundamentalist Christian Missionary Graham Staines and his children in a remote district of Orissa ( West Bengal's neighboring province ). The song Sokal ( Morning ) depicts the empty materialism of modern lifestyle whereas songs like Kanchan and Darjeeling are tributes to his childhood spent in the Himalayan foothills.

Serving as the administrative center of the Sokal Raion ( district ), the city itself also ranks as a separate raion within the oblast.

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

Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to Social Text, a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published.

The matter became known as the " Sokal Affair ", and it thrust the academic world ’ s in-house scientific objectivity wars into the public eye.

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 an interview on the NPR program All Things Considered, Sokal said he was inspired to submit the hoax article after reading Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science ( 1994 ), by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.

Later, after Sokal's self-exposure of his pseudoscientific hoax article in the journal Lingua Franca, the Social Text editors explained in a published essay that they had requested editorial changes that Sokal refused to make, and had had concerns about the quality of the writing, stating " We requested him ( a ) to excise a good deal of the philosophical speculation and ( b ) to excise most of his footnotes.

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.

In the United States, as the hoax was revealed by Sokal, French philosopher Jacques Derrida was initially one of the favourite targets of discredit, particularly in newspaper coverage.

Stephen Hilgartner, the Cornell University science and technologies department chairman, wrote " The Sokal Affair in Context " ( 1997 ) comparing Sokal's hoax to " Confirmational Response: Bias Among Social Work Journals " ( 1990 ), an article by William M. Epstein published in Science, Technology & Human Values.

Hilgartner thus argued that the intellectual impact of the successful Sokal hoax cannot be attributed to its quality as a " demonstration " but rather to journalistic hyperbole and the anti-intellectual biases of some American journalists.

In spring of 1997, the postmodern philosopher Fred Newman responded to the Sokal Affair publishing hoax in the paper " Science Can Do Better than Sokal: A Commentary on the So-Called Science Wars ", which he presented at the Postmodernism and the Social Sciences conference at the New School for Social Research ; Alan Sokal was a participant.

The three MIT graduate students who wrote the hoax article said they were ignorant of the Sokal Affair until after submitting their article.

As the paper was coming out, Sokal published an article in a self-described " academic gossip " magazine Lingua Franca, revealing the hoax.