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Ashley Started conversation Jun 11, 2002
Never has an entry made me raise my head from my omphallic contemplations as this one has...
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Jun 11, 2002
if you really want to do your head in, read 'Intellectual Impostures' by Alan Sokal. It's full of this kind of gibberish, and it's written mainly by Frenchmen with names like 'Derrida'.
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Ste Posted Jun 11, 2002
Derrida is impossible. He makes his own words up. I am reliably informed that once his text is penetrated it makes a great deal of sense.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Jun 12, 2002
That's not what Sokal thought, from my reading of his book. I've heard Sokal's analysis described as a 'forensic examination of sackloads of ordure from the French postmodernist stable'. 
When all this stuff is 'deconstructed' (for want of a better word) it turns out to be complete and utter gibberish. Avoid it like you would a band of roving Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Ste Posted Jun 12, 2002
My wife's own analysis would strongly disagree with that statement. *Tries to get her on h2g2*. But it's way above me I'm afraid.
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Jun 15, 2002
Why? Because she's a postmodernist? Or a Jehovah's Witness? 
OK: does she agree with this interpretation of postmodernism as 'today's interpretation of yesterday's vision of tomorrow'?
Discuss (10 marks).
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Felonious Monk - h2g2s very own Bogeyman Posted Jun 15, 2002
Why? Because she's a postmodernist? Or a Jehovah's Witness?
OK: does she agree with this interpretation of postmodernism as 'today's interpretation of yesterday's vision of tomorrow'?
Discuss (10 marks).
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