Archives mensuelles : mai 2017

By their own admission Boghossian and Lindsay did not even try to fabricate a real hoax. They did make a half-hearted attempt with an obscure journal, their article was rejected, thus proving that scholarly standards were working correctly. So they … Lire la suite →

I have established in my preceding posts that Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay’s hoax paper is not a meaningless pseudo-text but a sophomoric prank parodying an academic field based on a cherry-picked decontextualised hodgepodge of poorly understood ideas. The authors … Lire la suite →

The « conceptual penis » hoax gives us the sad sight of two « critical » thinkers perpetrating a media strike in the name of standards that they do not themselves obey. If their aim is really to expose uncritical thinking they should immediately … Lire la suite →

The « Badiou hoax » only proves that there are shady intellectuals willing to exploit the difficulty of his thought to swindle people intellectually (and perhaps financially). Badiou’s philosophy is untouched by this. Badiou never claims to be scientific, he is a … Lire la suite →

I live in France and lead a very active intellectual life here. I am constantly inspired by the rich and creative work being published here, and quite surprised by the image of it that I see on various Anglophone media. … Lire la suite →

DE-CONCEPTED JARGON The hoax by Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) and James Lindsay (@GodDoesnt) does a real service in showing up shady intellectual and editorial practices. To that extent I espouse their cause and my own blog contains much analysis of the … Lire la suite →

CONFIRMATION BIAS We do not have any statistics on how many « Sokal » hoaxes have so far been attempted and failed. To evaluate one publicised « success » however flimsy we would need to know what proportion of the the attempts at intellectual … Lire la suite →

Je viens d’assister à une conférence très stimulant par Arnaud Maillet sur le cinéma et la philosophie du cinéma de Jean Epstein:  » Image ralentie, image accélérée. Réflexions des cinéastes Jean Epstein et Jean Comandon ». La pratique et la philosophie … Lire la suite →

Anyone who wonders about the right way to read Deleuze, about whether we should search for system and clarity in his works, should investigate the relation between his seminars and his written works. Unfortunately we do not have transcriptions for … Lire la suite →

Bruno Latour’s anti-platonism can be seen in a recent interview, where he declares: When I talk to people, students, or colleagues, I ask myself: have they passed the test of going through the STS field or not? If not, I … Lire la suite →