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Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes

Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes

Update: 2025-04-16
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What should we think when an academic Humanities journal unsuspectingly publishes a paper that's been written as a hoax, full of fashionable jargon and deliberately specious arguments? Does this demonstrate that the Humanities set a higher value on shallow intellectual trends than on rigorous scholarship - or is there something more nuanced and complicated going on?

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Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes

Style wars pt 2: Scandals and hoaxes

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