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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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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #483, shifts attention from navigable spaces to systems that resist observation and reflects unease with processes that could be experienced but not seen. Although not presented as a sequel, ‘Systemic’ is now understood as the second movement of a triptych concerned with the gradual disappearance of external orientation.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #439, examines the enclosed shopping mall as a spatial form whose cultural significance far exceeded its commercial function. ‘Spatial’ would later be recognised as the first in a loosely connected triptych exploring the maze as a dominant cultural logic of the late twentieth century.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #119, uses philosophical, psychological and biological reasoning to posit that consciousness represents an evolutionary and ethical excess whose continuation demands far greater justification than it typically receives.
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In order to lose themselves in God, the Sufis were said to repeat their own name or the 99 names of God until they no longer meant anything. Try it yourself: in the everyday act of repeating a word, any word, on and on — “Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,…
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This art review, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #424, analyses Gareth Ellison’s now infamous ‘The Mathematics of Chaos’ following its debut at the Manchester Centre for Experimental Image Studies.
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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 #285, assesses the complicated question of authorship in relation to Don Quixote and the the instability of witness.
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