what talking you?

"The Einsteinian constant is not a constant, is not a center. It is the very concept of variability: it is, finally, the very concept of the game. In other words, it is not the concept of something--of a center starting from which an observer could master the field--but the very concept of the game."

---Derrida, cited by Alan Sokal

"I have no idea what this is intended to mean."

---Steven Weinberg, excerpt from "Sokal's Hoax", in Science and its Cultural Adversaries

"... but while poor [Jean] Hyppolite was willing to admit that he did not understand what Derrida meant by a center, Derrida just started talking about the Einsteinian constant, without letting on that (as seems evident) he had no idea of what Hyppolite was talking about. It seems to me that Derrida in context is even worse than Derrida out of context."

---Steven Weinberg, excerpt from "Science and Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange", also in Science and its Cultural Adversaries