The recent postmodern turn in sociology has been very powerful in transforming the landscape of the discipline. By questioning the basic epistemological and metaphysical character of positivism, the ...

The deep differences between modernity and postmodernity are analysed from the viewpoint of a radical transformation in the perception of time. Modernity is associated with mechanical clock and a ...

Alan Sokal really likes footnotes, which may have made him uniquely qualified as a hoaxer of “science studies”. The original hoax, a purposely and wonderfully nonsensical paper about the epistemology ...