TFW you're in a history of science methods class and you realize you know one of the Social Text editors involved in the Sokal hoax and even worse you know him from Occupy Wall Street

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@Wolven Andrew was, I kid you not, the only other person I considered doing a PhD with

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@ingrid Holy damn that is WILD.

Honestly their response to and discussion of Sokal and the attempts of other hoaxers is still crucial stuff to this day. I think that between that and Latour's dissection of his role in the science wars, STS as a discipline is stronger that it otherwise would have been

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