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.
Read more about this topic: Lingua Franca (magazine)
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—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)