Lingua Franca (magazine) - Sokal Affair

Sokal Affair

Lingua Franca was where the Sokal Affair — a parody of academic practices and post-structuralist language — was first revealed; Lingua Franca editors later published a book (The Sokal Hoax) of selected papers on the subject.

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