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A welcome message from the website’s custodian discussing the genesis of the project to digitise Sokal Nouveau.
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Dear Reader, As we stand on the precipice of the year 2000, Sokal Nouveau finds itself—like the world at large—preoccupied with the countdown. We chant it almost mechanically, as a collective, into the void: 10, 9, 8… The enumeration is backwards, inverted, diminishing. Each syllable signals not plenitude but subtraction, not progress but erasure. And
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #467, views Web 1.0 through the lens of the labyrinth of antiquity. Drawing parallels between links as forking paths, 404’s as dead ends, and the web user as a composite of Theseus, Daedalus and Minotaur.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #013, delves into the mystery of Marlowe Nyman. Blind from birth yet hailed a musical prodigy, his story is rarely told in music circles and when it is it is treated more as whispered folklore than documented fact.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #222, investigates the inherent threat of astronomical investigation in consideration of an unsettling incident which happened at the Valis Observatory in Yaughton in 1977.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #400, looks at the emerging world wide web and its potential to give form to Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious.
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This book review of The Disjointed Muse, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #247, analyses letters, essays, sketches, and marginalia to reappraise the work of Ludovico Klementine.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #514, interrogates the linguistic and semiotic dimensions of emojis, situating their usage within the broader context of post-postmodern communication modalities and representing a paradigmatic shift toward a visual communication akin to hieroglyphic systems.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #262, introduces and explores the practical uses of Anomaly Theory: an emergent fringe science in the 1980s.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau’s final issue (#517), examines the internet’s role in precipitating what can be termed the “death of culture,” a conceptual implosion that renders cultural expression increasingly fragmented, homogenised, and devoid of collective significance.
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