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By: The Sokal Hoax, Friedrich Nietzsche, Attacks on Deconstruction, and More Bad Writing « biblioklept

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:49:03 +0000

[...] Okay. Now. So. Is Sokal right? Is there a tendency in humanities departments toward obscurantism with elitist undertones? Absolutely. However, I see this as the academic byproduct of the writers under attack, the detritus of myriad misunderstandings and misreadings. Nobody’s perfect, obviously. I disagree that certain of the writers Sokal attacks–Julia Kristeva in particular (a hero of mine, whose writing I find to be both wonderfully lucid and poetically profound)–are purposefully difficult. Most of the deconstructionists mentioned above take their lead from Nietzsche, and thus employ a strange, elliptical, roundabout and often poetic strategy to their writing. The deconstructionist methodology itself is an affront to easy readings–simply put, it’s meant to make you think. Furthermore, philosophy, for most of us, is not beach reading. Interestingly, and perhaps ironically, Sokal’s gesture is an essentially postmodern move, a deconstructive move–a challenge to the new establishment of academic humanities and cultural studies. Even his use of recontextualized quotes is an affirmation of Derrida’s concept of iterability. The greatest value of the hoax is that it reinforces the tenets of deconstruction: to upset the places we feel are comfortable and safe, prompting constant re-examination of our aims and goals. Sokal’s hoax initiates a dynamic rethinking of the way we write and the way we read. Who are we writing for? How are we presenting our ideas? Do we understand what we are saying? More than anything, Sokal’s hoax calls attention to the constant need for peer review, for academia to question itself, its products, its institutions. [...]

By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Verbal Privilege

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:28:58 +0000

[...] I can’t think of a much better way to explain why anthropologists should read Derrida, without making everyone feel all iterable. [...]

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iterability: Web Search Results from Answers.com — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:09:59 +0000

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By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What seems to bother Tribble here is not so much the comments themselves (after all, one would think an academic would have a bit more worry about inane comments made in the classroom!), but their iterability —their capacity to be repeated and, in being repeated, to escape the control of their author. The appropriate public venue for academic speech is publication, after passing through layers of vetting and peer review to minimize the consequences of