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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 #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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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #505, investigates the profound yet under-theorised relationship between temporal constructs and Irish cultural semiotics, arguing that time itself exhibits a uniquely Irish ontology.
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This rebuttal, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #069, provides an in-depth critique of an essay concerning the nature and variety to kissing which was originally published in issue 067 (missing from our collection).
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #090, interrogates the racial and colonial undertones of the ancient alien hypothesis, positing that the narrative is not merely an exercise in speculative archaeology but a discursive precursor to the ideological underpinnings of racialised slavery.
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This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #003, examines the suppressed works of Branwell Brontë and positions him as the unwitting progenitor of the cosmic horror genre.
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