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Derrida. And I'm only sort of being facetious. Sometime in the 1980's the humanities seemed to collectively decide that 'theory' was more important than the ab
by olefoo 13y ago
Derrida.
And I'm only sort of being facetious. Sometime in the 1980's the humanities seemed to collectively decide that 'theory' was more important than the ability to think and communicate clearly. To my mind this has always been the point at which Academia as a class abdicated it's responsibilities to society at large in favor of internal power games and obscurantism.
- impendia 13y agoAh, but this trend was fought by another academic. Alan Sokal, NYU physicist, famously completely bullshitted an essay and got it published by Social Text, a leading postmodern sociology journal. http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/ http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/ Scroll down to "Transgressing the Boundaries".