It’s been 13 delicious years since physicist Alan Sokal hammered the nails into the coffin of literary theory. And, too few people know this tale. This is a bit of history that deserves retelling, because anything that makes snobs look like morons, is, IMNSHO, awesome. The short version goes like this:
Physicist Alan Sokal decided to [...]
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A brief history of Sokal’s Hoax
Literary Theory Can Get Stuffed
Forwarded to me by a friend: The Death of Literary Theory — Is it really a good thing?.
To this I have to say:
Literary theory can get stuffed. It’s pretentious, snobby, detached from reality and exists to justify the paychecks of professors who wouldn’t last two seconds in the real world so they stay in academia [...]
