File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-06-08.010, message 74


Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:30:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bryan N. Alexander" <bnalexan-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Sokal and ethics


A local note: Detroit's rightist union-busting NEWS ran an editorial 
calling the discourse Sokal satirized "leftist," not "postmodern" or 
"deconstructionist" etc.


On Sun, 26 May 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:

> At 5:51 AM 5/26/96, 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.
> 
> No kidding. If he were a neo-con, he'd be all over TV, besieged with book
> and think-tank offers, a genuine Fukuyama-esque celebrity. Since he's a
> leftist, none of that applies, and his ass may even be in danger. Compare
> the prestige and salaries of Sokal with those of Andrew Ross and Stanley
> Aronowitz, and you can see which is the real threat to the social order,
> and which is the safe, system-protecting form of "rebellion." The latter is
> a perfect example of what Tom Frank and the Baffler boys call the
> "commodification of dissent."
> 
> Doug
> 
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