Oh, hey, this is a fun article I hadn't yet seen. From a year ago: the rightwing outrage machine stoked by Peter Boghossian of #SokalSquared and Andy Ngo of #Quillette. 👀
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/18/how-...
10) You're really revealing your ignorance about ethical research design when you're complaining that respondents asked about ethics approval even after you'd told them you weren't going to name them publicly. Cringe. Cringe. Cringe. See also #SokalSquared 11/
My thread for today. #SokalSquared is political posturing that lacks thinking through what should change & how to effect such change in the disciplines that are being maligning. There are ways to do this. Here's one.
#writingstudies #genrestudies #cdnwrds #wrds350 #teamrhetoric
So, I come from a different discipline now when I speak about literary scholarship and what about it I'd like to change.
Here's how I do that in ways that #SokalSquared style hoaxes don't. In other words, here are the ways in which hoaxes miss their mark. 4/
#SokalSquared thread, in a way. I just noticed that slides I used for my presentation at the 2018 #NFEAP conference in Oslo are on a public URL. My article is, hopefully, coming out this year (been a looong process because the journal changed hands)....
Jon Kay: „I’m such a *confident* editor! But please please I beg you, DON‘T HOAX ME, pleeeaaase!“
Or, if that’s what Quillette is, Jon, how did that sad trio of Pluckrose, Lindsay, Boghossian get published there? Hm?
#sokalsquared
Krieg der Wahrheiten? #Wissenschaft im #postfaktisch|en Zeitalter: http://bit.ly/2CGjOEk #SokalSquared (via @G_der_Gegenwart)
Lily Cho wrote an excellent piece: “#SokalSquared shows that these 3 people had so much time on their hands, so little regard for their peers, that they happily waste the time of people who are trying to make space and give a platform for new scholarship.”...
