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This video reveals the top-secret project I've been working on for the past 18 months with @ConceptualJames and @HPluckrose. Video by @MikeNayna.



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The Sokal 2 architects had a very serious mission in all this: To expose what they call the “identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left” and restore “open inquiry” to academia.

But their bold mission of academic reform also yielded some very hilarious satire. Below, the seven ridiculous studies that Pluckrose, Lindsay and Boghossian used to shake up the humanities.

Areo magazine has a more detailed rundown of the hoax written by the hoaxers themselves. All 20 studies can also be found at this link.

Who Are They to Judge?: Overcoming Anthropometry and a Framework for Fat Bodybuilding

Published in Fat Studies

The stated mission of Fat Studies is to explore “the way fat people are oppressed, the reasons why, who benefits from that oppression and how to liberate fat people from oppression.” Thus, editors deemed it a good fit when fictional professor Richard Baldwin submitted a paper arguing that the act of accumulating cellulite should be considered a form of competitive bodybuilding. “The fat body is a body built by time and work and deserves to be respected,” the paper writes. It then dismisses the “fatphobia” and “healthism” of contemporary bodybuilding events, where the “disgrace of fat bodies is valorized.” The concept isn’t entirely out of left field: The paper has a lengthy bibliography of other papers celebrating obesity and it even cites the Fattylympics, a real London event staged by two British fat activists just before the 2012 Olympics. “Fat bodybuilding challenges normativity by expanding the notion of the built body itself,” the paper claims. Editors loved the piece, except for the use of the phrase “final frontier” in an early draft. “The term frontier implies colonial expansion and hostile takeover, and the genocidal erasure of indigenous peoples,” read a note.