Wednesday, May 5, 2010

The Intellectual Hegemon

Researcher "publishes article liberally salted with nonsense" in a leading North American journal of cultural studies, "Social Text". He later explained it was a hoax to test if such gibberish would receive accolades when "(a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions?" It did!

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