Defunct Periodicals: "Lingua Franca" — The Airship
Countless periodicals have come & gone, but which are worth remembering? A favorite of academics & journalists, Lingua Franca certainly is.
In 1996, an NYU physics professor stunned academia when his paper “A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies” was published in Lingua Franca. In the paper, the professor, Alan Sokal, revealed that an early piece he authored for the cultural studies journal Social Text (in which he proposed — using a nearly incomprehensible jumble of theoretical colloquialisms — that the laws of physics were a social and linguistic construct) had been intended as a parody and that its publication by the journal demonstrated the anti-intellectual trend of “epistemic relativism” in postmodern critical…
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