Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 21:55:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Sokal and ethics


Give me a break.  Nothing is going to happen to Sokal, nor, of course, 
should it.  NYU is going to eat up the publicity just as duke ate up the 
publicity when they went through the same thing a few years ago.  Lefty 
stars go "too far", earnest liberal humanist (and I'm not convinced that 
Sokal is anything else -- I mean after all teaching physics in managuag 
during the Sandanista gig hardly makes you Lenin) responds (in Duke's 
case it was pol sci prof James Barber starting the National Association 
of Scholars to rescue standards in the humanities) and the university 
admin. is thrilled to have it name plastered all over the place.  The 
whole thing (I mean the initial issue and the surrounding print and 
e-hype) has gotten to be nothing more than a testament to academia's 
inflated sense of importance in this country.  Yes, serious issues are 
involved, but issues that, finally, are serious to academics (and other 
intellectuals, maybe).  Nobody in the NYU admin. gives a shit about this 
other than to be satisfied that by throwing enough money at things 
they've finally gotten themselves on the map.  Best, sc

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On Sun, 26 May 1996, Ralph Dumain wrote:

> If  any of these pricks lift a finger against Sokal, it's time to declare
> war on these culturral studies/pomo shits.  Doo you really  think
> Sokal is vulnerable?  Acccording to him,  he is a real leftist.  THat
> could make him vulnerrable.
> 
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