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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 #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 #376, explores the epistemological, ontological, and semiotic ramifications of one collector’s obsessive attempt to reconstruct the meaning of a missing painting within a sequence of seven works by the 19th-century painter Fredéric Tonnerre. The discussion investigates the convergence of art, narrative, and the speculative imagination.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #343, through a labyrinthine exegesis of Borgesian narratives, pseudo-structuralist paradigms, and contemporary cultural criticism, ventures to elucidate the intricate interplay between mental and existential mazes.
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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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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #131, interrogates the complex layers of performance, observation, and historical memory surrounding The Baby of Mâcon, a fifteenth-century morality play revived in 1659 under conditions that both emphasised and destabilised its moral and dramaturgical intentions.
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