Em 1996, Alan Sokal, físico e professor Norte Americano publica na conceituada revista Social Text um artigo intitulado: Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity . Afinal não passava de uma paródia que por estar em conformidade com o "tom" intelectual da revista passou a barreira dos editores.
"For some years I've been troubled by an apparent decline in the standards of intellectual rigor in certain precincts of the American academic humanities. But I'm a mere physicist: if I find myself unable to make head or tail of jouissance and différance, perhaps that just reflects my own inadequacy.
So, to test the prevailing intellectual standards, I decided to try a modest (though admittedly uncontrolled) experiment: Would a leading North American journal of cultural studies -- whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross -- publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions? (...)"
Alan Sokal
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/#papers
