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A curated archive of the highly influential multidisciplinary academic journal.

  • 01/01/2025

    📌 Welcome (and thank you)

    A welcome message from the website’s custodian discussing the genesis of the project to digitise Sokal Nouveau.

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  • 29/03/2025

    Tags, Neuroscience, and the Capitalist Baby

    This essay, originally published in Sokal Nouveau #516, draws on interdisciplinary studies in sociology, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology to posit that humanity’s inexplicable obsession with brands and labels is hardwired into our DNA and that the obsession is not an innocent sensory diversion but an early manifestation of genetic brand snobbery

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  • 01/03/2025

    The Theatricality of Truth: A Historiographical Analysis of the Only Recorded Performance of ‘The Baby of Mâcon’

    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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  • 17/02/2025

    Temporal Celtism: On the Irishness of Time and Its Cultural-Epistemological Implications

    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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  • 03/02/2025

    On ‘Kiss of Death’ (a rebuttal)

    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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  • 20/01/2025

    Cosmic Colonisation and Earthly Subjugation: The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis as Proto-Colonialism and Its Resonances in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    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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  • 03/01/2025

    The Horror of Branwell Brontë

    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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