It does feel weird to me that Sokals more recent writing/activism¹ on 'academic freedom' being mostly very concerned about the freedom to be a transphobe doesn't seem to play any role in that piece. Because that's one of the more obvious connections between his views from the nineties with current right wing to fascist mobilization.
~lou ¹: Here's a critical overview on the complex: https://gracelavery.org/undermining-academic-freedom/ primary sources for Sokal: https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/Kent_talk_Apr_3_24.pdf https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/academics-ehrc/ https://thecritic.co.uk/free-speech-for-everyone-except/ -- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: https://www.nettime.org # contact: [email protected]
