Matthijs R. Koot's notebook: The Sokal affair Matthijs R. Koot's notebook IT-engineering, privacy, cyberwar, democracy. Sunday, February 6, 2011 The Sokal affair In 1996, Alan Sokal gained notoriety for getting his (intentionally) bullshit paper "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" published in the cultural studies journal Social