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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 #343, considers the labyrinth as it appears across narrative, theory, and everyday experience, treating it as a shared structure rather than a singular metaphor.
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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 #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 #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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