From: Nieminen Mika
Subject: Transformative Hermeneutics
Date: 30 Oct 1998 09:15:13
Message: <3639c9f1.0@news.povray.org>
I just saw this signature:
...a cut on a torus corresponds to the neurotic subject, and on a cross-cut
surface to another kind of mental disease. (Alan Sokal:
Transgessing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics)
What does this mean? That when I make a difference with a torus I'm
mentally sick?
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- Warp. -
Nieminen Mika wrote:
> I just saw this signature:>> ...a cut on a torus corresponds to the neurotic subject, and on a cross-cut> surface to another kind of mental disease. (Alan Sokal:> Transgessing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics)>> What does this mean? That when I make a difference with a torus I'm> mentally sick?>> --> - Warp. -
No! Just Warpped.
Ken Tyler
How about a twysted mind?
No insults meant to anybody, just liked the wordplay!
Marc
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Marc Schimmler
Institut fuer Computeranwendungen
Universitaet Stuttgart
Actually, this was part of physicist Alan Sokal's prank. He deliberately wrote
a bogus article in a social sciences journal, to show that part of the "soft"
scientific world was borrowing "hard" sciences concepts in a totally pedantic
way (like torus topology applied to psychoanalysis, and much worse).
However, if a torus is neurotic, what about the whole "math" directory in pov ?
Gilles Tran
The Book of Beginnings - Povray Gallery
http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/gtran.en.html
Nieminen Mika wrote:
> I just saw this signature:>> ...a cut on a torus corresponds to the neurotic subject, and on a cross-cut> surface to another kind of mental disease. (Alan Sokal:> Transgessing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics)>> What does this mean? That when I make a difference with a torus I'm> mentally sick?>> --> - Warp. -
