Social Text

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For the software company, see Socialtext.

Social Text is a postmodern cultural studies journal published by Duke University Press.

It became world famous in 1996, when physicist Alan Sokal revealed that his article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", which the journal had published, was in fact a spoof of Postmodernist writing consisting of (to quote Prof. Sokal himself) "the silliest quotations I could find ... from some of the most prominent French and American intellectuals" along with "a nonsensical argument linking these quotations together".

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