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'''''Social Text''''' is an [[academic journal]] published by [[Duke University Press]]. Since its inception by an independent editorial collective in 1979, ''Social Text'' has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment. Each issue covers subjects in the debates around [[feminism]], [[Marxism]], [[neoliberalism]], [[postcolonialism]], [[postmodernism]], [[queer theory]], and [[popular culture]]. The journal has since been run by different collectives over the years, mostly based at New York City universities. It has maintained an avowedly progressive political orientation and scholarship over these years, if also a less and less socialist or Marxist one. Since 1992, it is published by Duke University Press.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html|title=Mystery Science Theater |work=Lingua Franca |accessdate=2014-12-10}}</ref> |
'''''Social Text''''' is an [[academic journal]] published by [[Duke University Press]]. Since its inception by an independent editorial collective in 1979, ''Social Text'' has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment. Each issue covers subjects in the debates around [[feminism]], [[Marxism]], [[neoliberalism]], [[postcolonialism]], [[postmodernism]], [[queer theory]], and [[popular culture]]. The journal has since been run by different collectives over the years, mostly based at New York City universities. It has maintained an avowedly progressive political orientation and scholarship over these years, if also a less and less socialist or Marxist one. Since 1992, it is published by Duke University Press.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html|title=Mystery Science Theater |work=Lingua Franca |accessdate=2014-12-10}}</ref> |
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The journal gained notoriety in 1996 for the [[Sokal affair]], when it published a [[Nonsense|nonsensical]] article that physicist [[Alan Sokal]] had deliberately written as a hoax. The editors of the journal were in 1996 awarded the [[Ig Nobel Prize]] for literature by "eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig1996|title=The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize Winners |publisher=Improbable Research |accessdate= 15 April 2016}}</ref> |
The journal gained notoriety in 1996 for the [[Sokal affair]], when it published a [[Nonsense|nonsensical]] article that physicist [[Alan Sokal]] had deliberately written as a hoax. The editors of the journal were in 1996 awarded the [[Ig Nobel Prize]] for literature by "eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig1996|title=The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize Winners |publisher=Improbable Research |accessdate= 15 April 2016}}</ref> At that time, the journal did not practice academic [[peer review]], and it did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html| title = Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity| accessdate=April 3, 2007| last = Sokal| first = Alan D.| date=November 28, 1994| work = [[Social Text]] #46/47 (spring/summer 1996)| publisher = [[Duke University]] Press| pages = 217–252}}</ref><ref name="MST">{{cite journal| journal = [[Lingua Franca (magazine)|Lingua Franca]]| url = http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html| title = Mystery science theater| author1 = Bruce Robbins| author2 = Andrew Ross|date=July 1996}}. Reply by Alan Sokal.</ref> |
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| Discipline | Cultural studies |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Anna McCarthy, Tavia Nyong’o, Neferti X.M. Tadiar |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1979-present |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Soc. Text |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0164-2472 (print) 1527-1951 (web) |
| LCCN | 79644624 |
| JSTOR | 01642472 |
| OCLC no. | 423561805 |
| Links | |
Social Text is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. Since its inception by an independent editorial collective in 1979, Social Text has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment. Each issue covers subjects in the debates around feminism, Marxism, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, queer theory, and popular culture. The journal has since been run by different collectives over the years, mostly based at New York City universities. It has maintained an avowedly progressive political orientation and scholarship over these years, if also a less and less socialist or Marxist one. Since 1992, it is published by Duke University Press.[1]
The journal gained notoriety in 1996 for the Sokal affair, when it published a nonsensical article that physicist Alan Sokal had deliberately written as a hoax. The editors of the journal were in 1996 awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for literature by "eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist".[2] At that time, the journal did not practice academic peer review, and it did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ "Mystery Science Theater". Lingua Franca. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
- ^ "The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize Winners". Improbable Research. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ Sokal, Alan D. (November 28, 1994). "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". Social Text #46/47 (spring/summer 1996). Duke University Press. pp. 217–252. Retrieved April 3, 2007.
- ^ Bruce Robbins; Andrew Ross (July 1996). "Mystery science theater". Lingua Franca.. Reply by Alan Sokal.
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