GLENN: He told me, pretty nervously, that he had hoped that the hoax would not be revealed for a year. His hope was to see that his essay would be cited or discussed at conferences. Would people criticize it?
Would people totally ignore it? GLENN: He pulled out of his briefcase a short manuscript and said that he wanted Lingua Franca to publish his own account, and to do it soon. STAR: It was all very, very surprising, Bryan Thomas for The Chronicle but it felt like, provided it was Alex Star something that we could edit as we would normally edit anything, we would go ahead with it.
The timeline was tight. Lingua Franca went to press April 16, and soon afterward started alerting the news media. Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the window of my apartment. The next day, The New York Times was calling, and several television networks.
I wanted to have a serious discussion. By that time, I really was persona non grata. It was very clear that I was a minority in my department, and not only a minority but a target. I had an article in Socialist Review in which I criticized poststructuralism. It had become a crusade and an orthodoxy and a juggernaut, and the more I was part of that culture, the more I disliked it. It showed up the inadequate editorial sense of some of the publications and the takeover by almost incomprehensible jargon.
But a lot of us felt there was a big misunderstanding of what the goal of science studies was. But it did sink in relatively quickly. There was an "Oh, shit" moment. I had not read it before.
The ordinary Social Text procedures were that four people had to read a piece. Once Andrew Ross brought the article back into a second discussion for a special double issue of Social Text on the Science Wars, I went along with other members of the editorial board. Aronowitz did not return messages from The Chronicle Review.
So if he wanted it — Social Text is not a refereed journal — if one of the founders was there and wanted it, it was probably going to go in.
All of us were distressed at the deceptive means by which Sokal chose to make his point. This breach of ethics is a serious matter … the openness of intellectual inquiry that Social Text has played its role in fostering will be curtailed. Basically, our reasoning was that the subculture that I was criticizing had become ingrained and self-referential and mostly disdained critiques from outsiders, so that an ordinary type of intellectual critique was precluded.
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