Information: - The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, was a publishing hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to "Social Text", an academic journal of postmodern cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's intellectual rigor and, specifically, to investigate whether "a leading North American journal of cultural studies whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross [would] publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions". - Free Inquiry is a bi-monthly journal of secular humanist opinion and commentary published by the Council for Secular Humanism, which is a program of the Center for Inquiry. Philosopher Paul Kurtz was the editor-in-chief until he stepped down in 2010, and Tom Flynn (author) is the current editor. Feature articles cover a wide range of topics from a freethinking perspective. Common themes are separation of church and state, science and religion, dissemination of freethought, and applied philosophy. Regular contributors include well-known scholars in the fields of science and philosophy. - Philosophy (from Greek , "philosophia", literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. The term was probably coined by Pythagoras (c. 570 c. 495 BC). Philosophical methods include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument and systematic presentation. Classic philosophical questions include: Is it possible to know anything and to prove it? What is most real? However, philosophers might also pose more practical and concrete questions such as: Is there a best way to live? Is it better to be just or unjust (if one can get away with it)? Do humans have free will? - Jeremy Stangroom is a British writer, editor, and website designer. He is an editor and co-founder, with Julian Baggini, of "The Philosophers Magazine", and has written and edited several philosophy books. He is also co-founder, with Ophelia Benson of the website 'Butterflies and Wheels'. - Ophelia Benson is an American author, editor, blogger, and feminist. Benson is the editor of the website "Butterflies and Wheels" and a columnist and former associate editor of "The Philosophers' Magazine". She is also a columnist for "Free Inquiry". - Social Text is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. Since its inception by an independent editorial collective in 1979, "Social Text" has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment. Each issue covers subjects in the debates around feminism, Marxism, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, queer theory, and popular culture. The journal has since been run by different collectives over the years, mostly based at New York City universities. It has maintained an avowedly progressive political orientation and scholarship over these years, if also a less and less socialist or Marxist one. Since 1992, it is published by Duke University Press. - Julian Baggini (born 1968) is a British philosopher, and the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is co-founder of "The Philosophers' Magazine". - Alan David Sokal (born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University. He works in statistical mechanics and combinatorics. He is best known to the wider public for his criticism of postmodernism, after the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke University's "Social Text". He also works to counter faulty scientific reasoning, as seen with his involvement in criticising the critical positivity ratio concept in positive psychology. - Jean Bricmont (born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. A professor at the Universite catholique de Louvain, he works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. He is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium. - Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, is a book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted a deliberately absurd article to "Social Text", a critical theory journal, and was able to get it published. - The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense : A Guide for Edgy People is a 2006 book by Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom . The book is a satire on post-modernism , modern jargon and anti-rationalist thinking in contemporary academia . '' Covering such schools of thought as difference feminism , deconstruction , and the sociology of knowledge , the author reveals that clotted jargon , tortured syntax , and unreadable style hides the fact that nothing new is being said . '' The Times Literary Supplement said '' With wit and invention , Benson and Stangroom take us through the checklist argot that so often litters postmodern texts . '' Writing in The Guardian , Ben Marshall called it '' a near perfect summary of the banality of postmodern discourse . '' The book 's authors were interviewed about the book by ABC radio in Australia . After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'the dictionary of fashionable nonsense' exhibits the relationship of 'genre'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - academic journal - article - book - cultural studies - gender - magazine - mathematics - philosophy - physics - postcolonialism - postmodernism - psychology - religion - science - will - wisdom
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