[extropy-chat] Fw: Deconstruction deconstructed....

[Dirk Bruere]

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From: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Fw: Deconstruction deconstructed....


>
> From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 8:55 PM
>
> > the fact that such a paper could make it through
> > peer review and be published demonstrates that what Sokal sought to
> > prove
>
> Lingua Franca was not a peer-reviewed journal.

Merely one run by people who fancied they could tell shit from gold - and
couldn't.
However, to be fair, postmodernism does tend to undermine its own authority.
Once one accepts that there is no 'true' definition of objective reality
what's left apart from power and games?

Dirk

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