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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 #299, uses the frameworks of therolinguistics and astrobiology to analyse the impact of Mycelium Nigrum on flora in the woodland vicinity of the Valis Observatory
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This rebuttal, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #264, provides a measured critique of Dr Walter E Crofton’s essay on the applicability of his Anomaly Theory which was originally published in issue 262.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #234, speculates on the acoustic properties of utterances which do not occur and the ethical considerations of attempting to capture them
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #502, addresses solitude not as a psychological state but as a structural condition of late modern life. Read retrospectively, this piece completes a triptych in which the maze moves from environment to infrastructure to condition of being. Dr. Hale did not publish again.
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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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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #333, puts forward a tri-ponged hypothesis which aims to reposition the phenomenon of semantic satiation as temporarily revealing the strangeness of language.
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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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