The conceptual union of Sokalism (the strategic use of academic hoaxes and to critique perceived intellectual fraud) and Mobergerism (the taxonomic dismissal of disagreeable positions as pseudoscience or bullshit). Sobergerism names the particular intellectual style that combines the Sokalist's performative exposure of nonsense with the Mobergerite's categorical dismissal of entire domains of inquiry. The Sobergerist doesn't just expose
bad arguments—they position themselves as the ultimate arbiters of what counts as real
knowledge, using the tools of academic critique to establish and enforce epistemological boundaries while remaining immune to similar critique themselves. It's a form of intellectual
gatekeeping armed with the
full apparatus of scientific authority, philosophical rigor, and performative debunking, creating a fortress of legitimate
knowledge that can dismiss any challenger as either fraudulent (Sokalism) or categorically invalid (Mobergerism).
Example: "His response to the entire field of
continental philosophy was to publish a parody and then declare any defense of it 'pseudophilosophy'—Sobergerism in its purest form, using mockery and taxonomic exclusion to avoid genuine engagement."