Contents -- Introduction -- Transgressing The Boundaries: Toward A Transformative Hermeneutics Of Quantum Gravity -- Revelation: A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies -- Social Text Response: Mystery Science Theater -- Scientist Takes Academia For A Ride With Parody -- Is It Gibberish Or Merely Obscure? Scientist Hoaxes Academic Journal -- Postmodern Gravity Deconstructed, Slyly -- Hokum For High-Brows -- Professor Sokal'S Bad Joke -- When Pretension Reigns Supreme -- A Physics Prof Drops A Bomb On The Faux Left -- Smitten With Gibberish -- Hoax Article Yanks Academics' Legs -- Pomolotov Cocktail, And Selected Responses -- Another Dispatch From The Culture Wars -- Scholarly Article A Fine Hoax: Social Scientists Wore No Clothes -- Illogical Dons Swallow Hoaxer'S Leap Into Quantum Gibberish -- Sokal'S Prank -- Sokal, A Self-Parodist -- Academic Insult In Greenwich Village, And Selected Responses -- When Clever Men Think Rubbish, Sound The Alarm Bells -- Sokal Is No Socrates -- Is There Science After The Cold War? -- Why I Wrote My Parody -- My Sokaled Life -- Or, Revenge Of The Nerds -- The Sokal Hoax -- Sokal'S Hoax, And Selected Responses -- What The Sokal Hoax Ought To Teach Us: The Pernicious Consequences And Internal Contradictions Of ''Postmodernist'' Relativism, And Selected Responses -- Was Sokal'S Hoax Justified? -- The ''Sokal Affair'' Takes Transatlantic Turn -- Friendly Fire: The Hoaxing Of -- Alan Sokal'S ''Transgression'' -- The Science Wars In India -- Postmodernism And The Left -- Cultural Studies And Its Discontents: A Comment On The Sokal Affair -- Just Doing Your Job: Some Lessons Of The Sokal Affair -- Reflections On The Sokal Affair -- A Plea For Reason, Evidence, And Logic -- Lingua Franca Roundtable -- Among Our Academic Contributors -- Source Acknowledgments.