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	Fashionable Nonsense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (French: Impostures Intellectuelles, published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures) is a book by professors Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.
		Sokal is best-known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a satirical article to the journal Social Text, a moderately important critical theory journal, and got it accepted as a legitimate article.
		They argue that this view is held by a number of people, including postmodernists and the Strong Programme in the sociology of science, and that it is illogical, impractical, and dangerous.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense (1167 words)

	The Village Voice: VLS: Blinded By Science
		Fashionable Nonsense is Sokal and Belgian physicist Jean Bricmont's attempt to seize the moment and extinguish the half-life of postmodern thought.
		Fashionable Nonsense carries a heavy aura of tendentious ignorance, its overblown dismissals seeming to grow in proportion to its fatuity.
		Fashionable Nonsense was published last year in Paris as Impostures Intellectuelles, and amid the predictably polarized responses drew heavy fire that has evidently made the authors rather nervous about the release of the English edition.
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	Amazon.de: English Books: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Fashionable Nonsense," which includes both "Transgressing the Boundaries" and its follow-up article as appendices, is an extension of this message, and the devastating critiques of the use of science and mathematics in the "work" of "postmodernist" theorists is one of the book's major strengths.
		Fashionable Nonsense grew out of the famous hoax in which Alan Sokal published a parody article in the American post-modern journal Social Text.
		Sokol, suspecting something was rotten at the core of this mess, wrote a nonsensical piece that simply pushed all the right buttons and stroked the right egos, and as he feared, the postmodernists confirmed his worst fears by accepting it for publication.
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		Unfortunately for the members of the screening committee for "Social Text," the answer was "yes." lt;br /gt; lt;br /gt;The article itself is presented in the back of "Fashionable Nonsense," complete with explanations about the misrepresented physics and the embedded jokes.
		With few exceptions, history teaches that neither a witting charlatan nor a pious charlatan (i.e., one clinically delusional), which are the two most heavily populated categories of post-modernists, will confess to the nature of their acts short of compulsion.
		But perhaps if works such as "Fashionable Nonsense" receive a broad enough circulation, academic institutions will gradually feel shamed into removing their imprimatur of legitimacy from this guff.
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		In Fashionable Nonsense, Alan Sokal, the author of the hoax, and Jean Bricmont contend that abuse of science is rampant in postmodernist circles, both in the form of inaccurate and pretentious invocation of scientific and mathematical terminology and in the more insidious form of epistemic relativism.
		In a symposium in the November 2000 edition of "Meta Science", hostile critics of "Fashionable Nonsense" confronted Sokal and Bricmont.
		The other variety of fashionable nonsense is much more serious: the notions, started by Kuhn, that there is no objective reality to be known by science, and that scientific discoveries are purely cultural constructions (whatever that means).
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	Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		When ideas are accepted on the basis of fashion or dogma, they are especially sensitive to the exposure even of marginal aspects.
		Our scope is limited, firstly, to abuses in those scientific fields in which we can claim some expertise, namely mathematics and physics; secondly, to abuses that are currently fashionable in influential intellectual circles; and thirdly, to abuses that have not previously been analyzed in detail.
	www.human-nature.com /reason/books/sokal-bricmont.html (4432 words)

	Fashionable Nonsense
		Fashionable Nonsense, Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Picador (St. Martins), 1998, ISBN 0-312-19545-1, 300pp, hardcover.
		Fashionable Nonsense (hereafter FN) was inspired by the notorious Sokal hoax, an article consisting of a collection of physics gibberish liberally salted with quotes from sundry post modernist authors.
		As a note FN has picked up the deplorable postmodern vice of speaking of "texts" and "discourses", terms which are not wrong as such, but which are prefatory to postmodernist linguistic abuses.
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	The Talk.Origins Archive Post of the Month: November 1998
		In FN (Fashionable Nonsense) Sokal and Bricmont (both Physicists) take a sardonic look at what they call the abuse of Science by said intellectuals.
		One is to expose the "fashionable nonsense" in the European "deep thinkers".
		It is explicitly recognized that the connection between the two targets is indirect, being principally that the jargon of French Literary Theory is fashionable and that an entire brigade of French camels are poking their noses up under the edges of the tent of postmodernism.
	www.talkorigins.org /origins/postmonth/nov98.html (2782 words)

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		In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the authors thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals.
		In a witty and closely reasoned argument, the authors thoroughly document the misuse of scientific concepts in the writings of some of the most fashionable contemporary intellectual icons.
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		Hard work to write easy to read: instead of vice versa November 2 2000 This book is not centrally an attack on deconstruction post-modernism social constructionism and so on.
		Without confronting those writers' central ideas "Fashionable nonsense" devastates their reputations.
		It shows them claiming authority in various scientific fields using scientific "expertise" to enhance their authority and credibility to bolster arguments on non-scientific propositions by analogy with scientific propositions and to scare away dissenters.
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		Fashionable Nonsense is certainly not the last word on the "science wars".
		"(20) The extracts given in Fashionable Nonsense from the advocates of the strong program, such as David Bloor, clarify that the aim of the "strong program" is to explain the outcome of scientific debates and to study how scientific theories evolve, without any reference to the truth or falsity of these theories.
		Fashionable Nonsense writes that among the "principal negative effects" of postmodernism is "a weakening of the political left".
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	Fashionable Nonsense; Alan D. Sokal, Jean Bricmont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed to be a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in erudite but impenetrable lingo.
		The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and across many disciplines--psychology, sociology, feminist studies, history, literature, mathematics, and the hard sciences--about the use and abuse of scientific theories in fields outside the scope of science.
		At once provocative and measured, Fashionable Nonsense explores the crucial question of what science is and is not, and suggests both the abilities and the limits of science to describe the conditions of existence.
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	OT: fashionable nonsense & PoMo Hoax / Re: Way, Way OT - RE: phallicitations/
		In other words, the "generator" simply makes the point that much "academic" PoMo stuff is full of tedious, repetitive, mind numbing and largely meaningless fashionable nonsense.
		The best example of how such fashionable nonsense prevails in liberal higher education is the Sokal "Social Text" Affair.
		Sokal is a physics professor (a thoughtful leftist whose bona fides include working with the Sandinistas) who finally got fed up with the extremely high level of PoMo "b.s." that was being thrown around during the so called "science wars" debates in academia.
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	Fashionable Nonsense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All the citations and references in the article were real, and it is quite evident that Sokal had a wealth of examples of bad writing and general scientific gibberish from which to draw.
		In a third category they place a few excerpts of pure nonsense for which there is no hope of determining appropriateness or falsity.
		They conclude that the real danger is to the social sciences and yet admit "It could be argued that the authors of the texts quoted here have no real impact on research because their lack of professionalism is well-known in academic circles.
	mtprof.msun.edu /Fall1999/nosense.html (1705 words)

	sciencewars
		Lacan, for example, uses nonsensical mathematics to compare the "erectile organ" to the imaginary number, the square root of minus one.
		Irigaray suspects that Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2, is a "sexed equation." Kristiva compares the theory of poetic language to set theory and psychoanalysis to topology.
		To make this point, Sokal and Bricmont quote the British historian Eric Hobsbawm, who laments "the rise of 'postmodernist' intellectual fashions in Western universities, particularly in departments of literature and anthropology, which imply that all 'facts' claiming objective existence are simply intellectual constructions.
	scibooks.org /sciencewars.html (678 words)

	ipedia.com: Postmodernism Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Postmodernism has applications in many modern academic and non-academic disciplines; philosophy, theology, art, architecture, film, television, music, sociology, fashion, technology, literature, and communications are all heavily influenced by postmodern trends and ideas, and are rigorously scrutinised from postmodern perspectives.
		Sokal also co-authored Fashionable Nonsense, which criticizes the inaccurate use of scientific terminology in intellectual writing and finishes with a critique of some forms of postmodernism.
		Ironically, the purpose of many books which are considered to be postmodern literature is the former, with the exception that the format and structure of scientific writing is mocked, to emphasize the distinction between the content and the embodiment.
	www.ipedia.com /postmodernism.html (3415 words)

	Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0312204078
		From Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva to Luce Irigaray and Jean Baudrillard, the authors document the errors made by some postmodernists using science to bolster their arguments and theories.
		Witty and closely reasoned, Fashionable Nonsense dispels the notion that scientific theories are mere "narratives" or social constructions, and explored the abilities and the limits of science to describe the conditions of existence.
		Edward Lear's Nonsense Omnibus: With All the Origi...
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	Fashionable Nonsense (Intellectual Impostures) - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		Fashionable Nonsense (Intellectual Impostures) - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		Fashionable Nonsense is a perverse and maddening book.
		It is like a book about child abuse, describing in graphic detail the sins of the fathers -- there should be no need for such a thing.
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		Unfortunately for the members of the screening committee for "Social Text," the answer was "yes." The article itself is presented in the back of "Fashionable Nonsense," complete with explanations about the misrepresented physics and the embedded jokes.
		This book is great read on how the humanities pinheads of the academy have misguided us.
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	Scientific Commonsense to Fashionable Nonsense
		It is this type of atmosphere which Sokal and Bricmont attack in Fashionable Nonsense.
		Yes, that's right, it was published by the journal, but moreover it was placed in a special edition of the journal which was to show the close the physical sciences and the social sciences were related (Social Text #46/47 (spring/summer, 1996) pp.
		Throughout the book, Sokal and Bricmont expose many of the social, philosophical and ethical theories which postmodern authors claim are supported by science as utter nonsense when considered in the domain of science.
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		Fashionable Nonsense : Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
		Unfortunately for the members of the screening committee for "Social Text," the answer was "yes."
		The article itself is presented in the back of "Fashionable Nonsense," complete with explanations about the misrepresented physics and the embedded jokes.
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		Sokal and Bricmonts project was long overdue: exposing the fraudulent use of scientific jargon by a number of our most prominent contemporary theorists.
		Of course, even without references to science, the language of post-modernism would still be a hopelessly turgid mish-mash of pretentious jargon, but you have to start somewhere, so I welcomed the appearance of this book.lt;Pgt;Having just finished it, I think Fashionable Nonsense is well worth reading, but its not quite the triumph I had pictured.
		Its in the "Epilogue" where I think they make a plausible case that these things are not only related but harmful intellectual practices.lt;Pgt;In sum, then, Fashionable Nonsense is enjoyable enough, but should have been more smoothly developed.
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	Intellectual Impostures (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
		Intellectual Impostures — Fashionable Nonsense in the United States — is a follow-up to a parody by Sokal of postmodern handling of science, published unwittingly by the journal Social Text.
		Sokal and Bricmont focus on mathematics and physics, on mathematical logic, complex numbers, topology, set theory, fluid mechanics, relativity, and other such fields.
		Will anyone scientifically uneducated enough to have swallowed such nonsense in the first place be able to follow Sokal and Bricmont's analysis?
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