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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 #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 #230, offers a reappraisal of the late architect’s buildings and designs within the frameworks of poststructuralist critique and late-surrealist hermeneutics, foregrounding the liminal oscillation between functionality and absurdity that characterised his architectural oeuvre.
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Architect who reimagined space through surrealism, pairing the absurd and the sublime in stone, steel, and glass.
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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 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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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 #366, speculates on the rise of individualism as a consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s collectivist ideals and the dangers therein.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #041, unites Oswald Spengler’s cyclical vision of history with Carl Jung’s exploration of the collective unconscious to illuminate the profound psychic and historical mechanisms underlying humanity’s attraction to war, arguing that it is not merely political miscalculation or economic exigency but an inescapable enantiodromia of the collective psyche…
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #513, posits that the ostensibly escapist logics of Minecraft encode latent cultural yearnings for children to actually return to working in the mines.
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