Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (1996): Alan Sokal's now famous parody essay that was published in Social Text.
More papers on the 'affair' here.
The Abuse of Science: An Interview with Alan Sokal:
'But our dispute is not primarily with philosophers of science. We're more worried about the gross abuses and gross exaggerations of these ideas which originated in philosophy of science but which have trickled down in vulgarised form to anthropology and cultural studies. People just talk about the incommensurability of paradigms as if it were an established fact.' |
[wiki] Sokal affair.