The author of a parody of science and literary theory that was published as scholarship argues that many critics misuse scientific information they do not understand to make literary and philosophical points
Alan Sokal is a professor of physics at New York University. He is the author of "Transgressing the Boundaries," the parody that appeared in
Social Text, from which
Fashionable Nonsense originated, and is coauthor, with Roberto Fernandez and Jurg Frohlich, of
Random Walks, Critical Phenomena, and Triviality in Quantum Field Theory.
Jean Bricmont is a theoretical physicist with the Universite de Louvain in Belgium.