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This article probably should have just linked to the original Alan D. Sokal publication: "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of
by araes 3y ago
This article probably should have just linked to the original Alan D. Sokal publication: "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" (1996) Can be found at:
https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_si...
Entire paper is basically a discussion of how social sciences might be changed by the effects of quantum mechanics. I think the implication from the WSJ article is a lot of people thought it was a joke paper. Now the joke's on them.
One Aronowitz quote I like in there near the end is: "neither logic nor mathematics escapes the contamination of the social."
- zemvpferreira 3y agoI haven't read the Sokal piece in a few years, but isn't the (ironic) message the other way around? How physics must be changed to incorporate feminist/indigenous/racial/progressive perspectives, instead of being objectively true?
- TMWNN 3y ago>One Aronowitz quote I like in there near the end is: "neither logic nor mathematics escapes the contamination of the social." For example, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-racist_math https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-racist_math> exists