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{{Infobox journal
{{Infobox journal
| title = Social Text
| title = Social Text
| cover =
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| editor = Brent Hayes Edwards, Anna McCarthy, Neferti Tadiar
| editor = Jayna Brown, David Sartorius
| discipline = [[Cultural studies]]
| discipline = [[Cultural studies]]
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| abbreviation =
| abbreviation = Soc. Text
| publisher = [[Duke University Press]]
| publisher = [[Duke University Press]]
| country = United States
| country = United States
| frequency = Quarterly
| frequency = Quarterly
| history = 1979-present
| history = 1979–present
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| eISSN = 1527-1951
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'''''Social Text''''' is an [[academic journal]] published by [[Duke University Press]]. Since its inception as 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]]. Some notable contributors in its earliest years were [[Fredric Jameson]], [[Cornel West]], [[Andrew Ross (academic)|Andrew Ross]], [[Judith Butler]], [[Laura Kipnis]], [[Ellen Willis]], [[Edward Said]], [[Stanley Aronowitz]], and [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]]. The journal has since been run by different collectives over the years, mostly based in 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 from the days of Jameson, Aronowitz et al.
'''''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 Marxist one. Since 1992, it is published by Duke University Press.<ref name="MST">{{cite web |url=http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html|title=Mystery Science Theater |work=Lingua Franca |access-date=2014-12-10}}</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 awarded the 1996 [[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 |date=August 2006 |publisher=Improbable Research |access-date= 15 April 2016}}</ref> The journal does not<ref>{{cite journal |title=Peer Review |journal=Social Text |volume=27 |issue=3 |doi=10.1215/01642472-2009-031 |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/27/3%20(100)/169/33667/Peer-Review |access-date=28 April 2023}}</ref> 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| access-date=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"></ref> The Sokal article was not [[Retraction in academic publishing|retracted]] by the journal.
The journal gained notoriety in 1996 for the so-called [[Sokal affair]], when it published a [[Nonsense|nonsensical]] article that physicist [[Alan Sokal]] had deliberately written as a hoax.


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Science wars]]
* [[Science wars]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{official|http://www.socialtextjournal.org/}}
* {{Official website|http://www.socialtextjournal.org/}}


[[Category:Cultural journals]]
[[Category:Cultural journals]]
[[Category:Critical theory]]
[[Category:Critical theory]]
[[Category:Duke University]]
[[Category:Duke University Press academic journals]]
[[Category:Publications established in 1979]]
[[Category:Academic journals established in 1979]]
[[Category:Quarterly journals]]
[[Category:English-language journals]]



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Latest revision as of 21:47, 28 March 2024

For the software company, see Socialtext.
Social Text
DisciplineCultural studies
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJayna Brown, David Sartorius
Publication details
History1979–present
Publisher
Duke University Press (United States)
FrequencyQuarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Soc. Text
Indexing
ISSN0164-2472 (print)
1527-1951 (web)
LCCN79644624
JSTOR01642472
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 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 awarded the 1996 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] The journal does not[3] practice academic peer review, and it did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.[4][1] The Sokal article was not retracted by the journal.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Mystery Science Theater". Lingua Franca. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
  2. ^ "The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize Winners". Improbable Research. August 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Peer Review". Social Text. 27 (3). doi:10.1215/01642472-2009-031. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  4. ^ 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.

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