Poetics, Perception, Disinterestedness: An Online Notebook

Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Dialectic of Narrative: The Pretextual Paradigm of Discourse in the Works of Madonna

[via neatorama] The Postmodernism Generator: Written by Andrew C Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars, and modified very slightly by Josh Larios (this version, anyway. There are others out there).

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.