Analytic Philosophy Dead, say Zabala and Davis

This is interesting, but only because it's at Al Jazeera. Referring to Stephen Hawking's complaint that philosophers haven't kept up with physics, Santiago Zabala (Barcelona) and Creston Davis (Skopje) write: 

Following Rorty and Badiou, we tend to agree with Hawking's criticisms as they pertain to analytic philosophers, who are stuck on the act of policing a rule of linguistic meaning - as if the "symbolic order", as Lacan would put it, represents all possibilities of constructing meaning. These are the ones who still today turn philosophy into a slave to the hard sciences, especially physics. But analytic philosophers are enslaved to their own methods, which ignore humans' existential and spontaneous creative powers of thought - the very cornerstone of philosophy since its inception.

Of course, analytic philosophy in that sense ("policing a rule of linguistic meaning") was all the rage in 1960, but pretty much in steady decline since then. (Quiz: Who died in 1960?) And those analytic philosophers didn't want to enslave themselves to physics.  

Still, I suppose . . . it's good to note the emergence of cable TV with some semblance of intellectual content.