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For the software company, see Socialtext.

Social Text is a postmodernist cultural studies journal published by Duke University Press.

It became world famous in 1996 for the so-called Sokal Affair when they published an article by the physicist Alan Sokal entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". Sokal had written the article as a deliberate hoax consisting of (to quote Sokal himself) "the silliest quotations I could find ... from some of the most prominent French and American intellectuals" along with "a nonsensical argument linking these quotations together." This set off a debate about academic ethics and the quality of research being published in the humanities.

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 '''''Social Text''''' is a [[Postmodernism|postmodernist]] [[cultural studies]] [[journal]] published by [[Duke University]] Press.
-It became world famous in [[1996]] when [[physicist]] [[Alan Sokal]] revealed that his article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", which the journal had published, was in fact a [[Parody|spoof]] of postmodernist writing consisting of (to quote Sokal himself) "the silliest quotations I could find [[...]] from some of the most prominent French and American intellectuals" along with "a nonsensical argument linking these quotations together."
+It became world famous in [[1996]] for the so-called [[Sokal Affair]] when they published an article by the physicist [[Alan Sokal]] entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". Sokal had written the article as a deliberate hoax consisting of (to quote Sokal himself) "the silliest quotations I could find [[...]] from some of the most prominent French and American intellectuals" along with "a nonsensical argument linking these quotations together."  This set off a debate about academic ethics and the quality of research being published in the humanities.
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