Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity Resource Type: Article Published: 1996 Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.