Stephen Black writes: "If there's one thing that Alan Sokal's brilliant "Transgressing" hoax on the journal _Social Text_ tells us, it's that the people who claim to understand such nonsense really don't. It's not even clear that the people who _write_ the stuff understand it. Postmodernists seem to have academic defecation disorder (ADD). It's writing to impress, not to communicate. information.
So who cares what the author may or may not have been trying to say. If it can't be understood without the need for someone else explain it to us, let's just flush it down the toilet. Note: I'm not talking about legitimately difficult exposition such as, for example, in modern mathematics. Mere mortals cannot understand such writing, not because it lacks meaning, but because it deals with genuinely difficult matters which only the seriously smart can understand. This, alas, is not the case with postmodernist babble." -------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is one for math and physics also, as evidenced by the Bogdanov affair. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair Bill Scott --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
