[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[PianoMan]

I remember when this happened. The NY Times ran no news article reporting the incident. But, they ran an op-ed by Stanley Fish saying that the uproar and the incident didn't matter. The usual objective reporting: it wasn't important enough to get a news mention, but then our op-ed page will bash it anyway.

[VIDADDICT]

I've posted this quote before I am sure I will post it again!

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1:22

[Old Professer]

The funniest thing has been happening to me lately; I have been having dreams of having dreams and I have to make myself wake up twice when I realize I'm dreaming.

[tom h]

"IF BEING A NATIONAL LAUGHINGSTOCK cannot derail a career as a university scholar, what can?"

In the old days, being found in bed with a young boy could be counted on to derail a career, but in academia vintage 2004, I'm not even sure it would be a scandal.

[martin_fierro]

“the space-time manifold ceases to exist as an objective physical reality”

Patently ridiculous on its face.

[Doctor Raoul]

That's why we call them, "liberal institutions".

[rmlew]

What do you think of red Stan?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

ROTFL!

Isn't that last name: Aro No-Wits?

Sokal-duper-hokum-licious-expialidocious!

[Blind Eye Jones]

'Stripped of the Darwinian control of a reality check, humanities professors nationwide are now spinning out invincibly ignorant, incandescently silly variations... variations that go by resonant names like “poststructuralism,” “perspectivism,” and “discourse analysis.” Their common features: baseless, shifting, virtually impenetrable jargon, and a dogmatic insistence that there is no independent reality beyond appearances, that knowledge is always a tool of power.'

This reminds me of Michael Moore and the stories he weaves that have no substance... in other words, a hoax on the viewing public. His fraudulent 9/11 and other movies gives the appearance of reality but as he says in his Oscar speech: we live in fictional times.

Ironically, Moore is accepted in France, the same country that put much of “poststructuralism,” “perspectivism,” and “discourse analysis” on the academic map. Should Moore be hailed a postmodern genius comparable to the likes of Baudrillard, Barth and Derrida? He offers up enough nonsense that can even fool intelligent democrats.

But, unlike most postmodern writers, I think that Moore doesn't believe in the nonsense or fiction he spews out. He will certainly never admit this to his public. What is important for Moore is that his films and books, his knowledge, his take on reality is..."always a tool of power."