please, uncle sokal, tell us more about cultural negation.
When I was a boy, Science was the promise of the Future. Indeed in those far-off days we often thought in Capital Letters.
Now we can learn every day and in every part of the media...and right here thanks to your industious work of cultural negation, that there is really nothing good about it. It resembles those elaborate forms of thought that we know (and we know this because we are told this millions of times) only that part of humanity that deserves our scorn would ever seriously indulge in. It's worse than just bad and deviant, it is fluff, nonsense, pure gas. Nothing at all.
And look at this Haha, Haskins, I used the term "cultural negation" to describe your diligent task of holding everything outside of some narrow region of which you approve (and I have no idea what that might be)
up to endless rather nasty mockery. To what end? What cultural machinery requires that you do this over and over and over?
It's the machinery of cultural negation, the steady, endless, pointless eradication of the assumptions of cultural value in any human action that falls outside of whatever it is that you think people ought to be doing.
