tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post3237334455214892425..comments2024-03-26T14:19:33.332-07:00Comments on Bench Grass: Books That I Have Read And Don't Have in Bibliography Files Because I'm Careless Like ThatErik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-86086281685144193232011-03-04T08:15:54.146-08:002011-03-04T08:15:54.146-08:00Yeah, I think Social Text deserved pretty much all...Yeah, I think Social Text deserved pretty much all it got, and Sokal's not unreasonable; it's his bandwaggon-jumpers that get tiresome. (As indeed are the wilder fringes of the STS community, but hey...) As a former aero engineering guy, I have a gut-level attraction to the 'no relativists at 30,000 feet' argument, but actual engineering epistemology is far more interesting.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01518954013413810262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-29580371682215069122011-03-03T15:45:00.690-08:002011-03-03T15:45:00.690-08:00By a remarkable coincidence indeed, Dances With Dr...By a remarkable coincidence indeed, <i>Dances With Dragons</i> will come out this July in the beach-reading season, between the first season of the HBO series and the second. I'm almost tempted to be cynical.<br /><br />On Berube on Sokal I'm just aping his delivery of <i>hilarious</i> in comment threads when people reference the whole "transgressing the law of gravity by walking out of a tenth story window" thing. He's usually such a smart and even-tempered guy that it always struck me as showing a little touchiness. <br /><br />Zammito can speak for himself, and in contrast to Berube, he is brutal towards <i>Social Text</i>. I was going to fess off to just showing off, but a quick rereading of Zammito and Berube suggests that I should have more faith in my reading. Critical science studies really did claim to attack epistemology of science. Reducing that to an editor's error, as Berube does, is to evade the import of the hoax.<br /><br />Or something like that. Oh God. I disagreed with Michael Berube on the Interweb. I'm going to get my arse handed to me in the unlikely event he notices.Erik Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-86841995115675642182011-03-03T14:03:58.194-08:002011-03-03T14:03:58.194-08:00If my friends' facebook statuses are anything ...If my friends' facebook statuses are anything to go by, I gather GRRM has just given a completion date for his next book today...<br /><br />I'll have to look up the Zammito - it's not one I'm familiar with. I didn't think that any of the Berube I'd read on the Sokal stuff was particularly unfair - anything in particular you were referring to?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-15652733528169656432011-03-01T18:18:27.539-08:002011-03-01T18:18:27.539-08:00It could be, but the spinning out of portions of F...It could be, but the spinning out of portions of <i>First World War</i> Vol 1 into three separately published volumes suggests that there's some kind of audience for the project. <br /><br />Surely there's similar publishing gold to be found in the next two volumes. I'm not going to second guess Strachan's choices here. I'll be glad to have the next volumes, when and if they're done. If he doesn't get them done, I understand.<br /><br />But I do reserve the right to bitch about it on the Internet. That's what it's for!Erik Lundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-55522645536019863432011-03-01T18:04:32.045-08:002011-03-01T18:04:32.045-08:00I just finished Strachan myself, and I'm prett...I just finished Strachan myself, and I'm pretty sure that the reason we don't have volume II and III is not with the author. From his forward I understood that in 2001 he had all three volumes at least mostly done, and in 2004 he wrote a single volume history of the entire war. <br /><br />My guess is that despite the critical acclaim that Volume I: To Arms recieved, it didn't sell very well. I will admit that when I explained to my family that I was reading a thousand page book on World War One through the end of 1914... they mocked me a lot. Even though it was very well done, I can definitely see it not selling particularly well. So if the publisher came to him and suggested he shorten down three thousand pages to a few hundred... <br /><br />Really enjoy these lists: just added about 5-6 books to my to-read list. <br /><br />ChrisChrisMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06264355590211481637noreply@blogger.com