File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_May.96, message 150


Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:50:55 -0400
Subject: RE: Sokal replies
From: mindstorm-AT-usa.pipeline.com (crispin sartwell)


On May 29, 1996 09:38:13, 'gcb0-AT-Lehigh.EDU (Gordon Bearn)' wrote: 
 
 
>when whomever it was (teillard?) pulled the the Piltdown Forgery we were
all 
>meant to be angry at the forgers.... 
> 
>but now when sokal pulls the social text forgery we are meant to be angry
at 
>those who were fooled by the forgery..... 
> 
>why this difference in the moral we are expected to draw? 
 
for one thing, the piltdown forgery was meant to survive as a forgery:
sokal revealed his deception as soon as it was published (or there would
have been no point).  how seriously are we tasking ourselves here?

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