As with all good horseshit, there have to be grains of truth in the mix for it to stick; bona fide, 100% made up nonsense is usually harder to sell.
Then again, one could look at the Sokal affair (and the Lindsay one more recently) and conclude that the whole edifice of capital-t Theory has now come completely unmoored from reality and is sailing away to rainbow unicorn land. We can only hope that there are still some Kraken in those waters.
As with all good horseshit, there have to be grains of truth in the mix for it to stick; bona fide, 100% made up nonsense is usually harder to sell.
Then again, one could look at the Sokal affair (and the Lindsay one more recently) and conclude that the whole edifice of capital-t Theory has now come completely unmoored from reality and is sailing away to rainbow unicorn land. We can only hope that there are still some Kraken in those waters.
Amen to that!