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The Sokal Affair

Alan Sokal’s Social Text parody, the Lingua Franca reveal, the editors’ defense, and rival lessons on a critical path.

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Story chapters, Social Text 46/47, Lingua Franca, editors’ Mystery Science Theater reply, Fashionable Nonsense, and rival theories (standards collapse, editorial eagerness, ethics, straw-man, culture-war appropriation, Science Wars continuity, Grievance Studies sequel pointer).

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