[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

We are experiencing a great rebirth of...irony. Comedically speaking, "it's a good thing."

[ninenot]

WHICH "irony?"

Derrida's or real-world??

[cornelis]

We are experiencing a great rebirth of...irony

If I get your drift--I would rather say it is modern, cynical, and satirical. Modernist, in that this is the preferred language of a specialized club; cynical, in that it has recognized the failure of rationalism, and yet disrespects what is outside of its own specialization; and ubiquitous satire, in that in the end, nothing is sacred. But perhaps it is the height of irony which rejects both the comic "I am a god" and the tragic "I am not a god." The first step for a trick the author seeks in unmasking the sham is to keep our focus on the key question, "what is human nature?"

[Antoninus]

I absolutely love this. I remember this article but could never find reference to it. Simply brilliant.

What Sokal neglects to accomplish however, is a radical re-evaluation of the meta-hypotheses which underpine the post-modern substructure. Had he taken the point of view that feminist critical theory and Gramscian Marxo-centric humanism, when synthesized with Jungian psychoanalytic process and imposed upon a quantum triaxial framework, could actually produce a working model of meaning, I suggest that he may have stumbled across a new and powerful definition of the word "thing." I call this model gastrometacognaphytophonics.

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