One side-effect of recent inquiries into the world of
money-leeching rep-snatching journals (and the people who publish in them) was to introduce me to the whole bogus bolus of Neutrosophy. Which is a holus bolus indeed, capable of sucking any field of science of humanities into its maw by sticking the word 'neutrosophic" in front of it (while drowning all meaning in a sepia mist of neologisms and tergiversation). Try it yourself... Neutrosophic logic! Neutrosophic physics! Neutrosophic golliwology!
Now I am not saying that an
entire intellectual movement is fraudulent just because its members all pay to publish in mockademic pukefunnels rather than face peer review (though you might very well think that). Just saying, the favourite publisher for
one Romanian Neutrosophist is the
criminal enterprise that usurped the name of
Mitteilungen Klosterneuburg, and
Jokull.
Another neurosophist favoursJokull and the other hijacked titles
Pensée and
Wulfenia. To say nothing of that wretched hive of scum and villainy,
Lambert Academic Publishing.
Essentially Neutrosophy is Null-Aristotelian logic, but with the serial number filed off the chassis, with less teleportation, and with better taste in clothing.
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Its originator is one
Florentin Smarandache, who along with 'Caran-d'ache' comprises 40% of a limerick; he is an exponent of the "Philosophy as Performance Artform" school of thought. Since Smarandache mounted the bank he has accrued a network of students and sock-puppets who share the values of that artform (i.e. posturing, self-promotion, self-contradiction and incompetence as an ironic stance).
The genius of Smarandache extends to artistic as well as scholarly output (i.e. writing manifestos and coining movements, not actually creating art). Clearly he is a super-intelligent
Van-Vogtian Slan. His students prefer to call him
a Renaissance man; Wikipedia editors are
far less kind.
You are reading all this at
Riddled because the time will come when Slanoj Žižek will fall from grace as the media's source of Deconstructionist opinions on any topic. Here is your chance to acquire hipster status, by knowing Smarandache's name before the other intellectual hipsters take him up as Eastern-European Man of Letters.Remember, you read it here first!
So far his movement has not produced a "Neutrosophy Three" or a "Neutrosophic Continuum", but these works cannot be far away.
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