02-12-2013, 11:16 AM
quote by Edward: "arguing for the masculinist bias of science, she has had the estimable insolence to suggest that the 20th century’s most resonant (and sinister) equation, E = MC2, may be sexist for having ‘privileged the speed of light’ or ‘what goes fastest’ over other velocities, and that if the science of fluid mechanics is under-developed, then that is because it is a quintessentially feminine topic"
Hilarious! rofl. But you know, the guys who published the sokal hoax were even better ( I mean:worse). as I said, I am the first to admit, sth went wrong with postmodernism at some point. Severely so. I recall an anecdote a friend told me, Lacan giving a lecture at a US unversity. Nobody got what L. was talking about but everyone went bananas. Including my friend (lol). politics, you know. I mean I studied linguistics (and even without postmodernisms) it got creepy enough, but we'd keep those guys out by any means. (there was a whisper of Derrida, but that was it). If I compare to the Literature departments I must admit , we were lucky.
Hilarious! rofl. But you know, the guys who published the sokal hoax were even better ( I mean:worse). as I said, I am the first to admit, sth went wrong with postmodernism at some point. Severely so. I recall an anecdote a friend told me, Lacan giving a lecture at a US unversity. Nobody got what L. was talking about but everyone went bananas. Including my friend (lol). politics, you know. I mean I studied linguistics (and even without postmodernisms) it got creepy enough, but we'd keep those guys out by any means. (there was a whisper of Derrida, but that was it). If I compare to the Literature departments I must admit , we were lucky.