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:''For the software company, see [[Socialtext]].''
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{{Infobox journal
'''''Social Text''''' is a [[Postmodernism|postmodernist]] [[cultural studies]] [[journal]] published by [[Duke University Press]].
| title = Social Text
| cover = Socialtext.jpg
| editor = Jonathan Beller, Jayna Brown, David Sartorius
| discipline = [[Cultural studies]]
| former_names =
| abbreviation = Soc. Text
| publisher = [[Duke University Press]]
| country = United States
| frequency = Quarterly
| history = 1979–present
| openaccess =
| license =
| impact =
| impact-year =
| website = http://www.socialtextjournal.org
| link1 = http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/
| link1-name = Journal page at publisher's website
| link2 = http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/content/current
| link2-name = Online access
| link3 = http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/content/by/year
| link3-name = Online archive
| JSTOR = 01642472
| OCLC = 423561805
| LCCN = 79644624
| CODEN =
| ISSN = 0164-2472
| eISSN = 1527-1951
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'''''Social Text''''' is a [[peer-reviewed]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/pages/About | title=About the Journal|work=Social Text|access-date=August 10, 2024}}</ref> [[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 editorial board, according to Editor Andrew Ross, published the article as a good faith attempt by Sokal, a well-known physicist, to develop a social theory of his field.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Editorial |first=Board |date=1996 |title=Response to the Sokal Affair |url=https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/SocialText_reply_LF.pdf |access-date=September 25, 2024 |website=Physics.NYU.edu}}</ref> The editorial board asked Sokal to revise and resubmit his article, but he refused and the editors decided to publish the paper as a prominent physicist’s best attempt to develop theory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lingua Franca |url=http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org}}</ref>
The journal gained notoriety in [[1996]] for the so-called [[Sokal Affair]] when it published an article by the physicist [[Alan Sokal]] entitled "[http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/critstudies/transgress_v2_noafterword.pdf Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity]". Sokal had written the article as a deliberate hoax consisting of (to quote Sokal himself) "the silliest quotations I could find [[...]] from some of the most prominent French and American intellectuals" along with "a nonsensical argument linking these quotations together." This set off a debate about academic ethics and the quality of research being published in the humanities. The Sokal Affair resulted in ''Social Text's''' editors being awarded with the 1996 [[Ig Nobel]] prize for Literature.

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 did not<ref>{{cite journal |title=Peer Review |journal=Social Text |date=2009 |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=169–170 |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.


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

*[[Science wars]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.socialtextjournal.org/}}
*[http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=journals/j_detail_page.htm&user_id=81522378087&Jmain.Journal_Name_option=1&Jmain.Journal_Name=Social+Text&Jmain.ISSN=0164-2472 Official site]


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[[Category:Duke University Press academic journals]]
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[[Category:Ig Nobel laureates]]




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Latest revision as of 17:40, 5 November 2024

For the software company, see Socialtext.
Social Text
DisciplineCultural studies
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJonathan Beller, Jayna 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 a peer-reviewed[1] 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.[2]

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 editorial board, according to Editor Andrew Ross, published the article as a good faith attempt by Sokal, a well-known physicist, to develop a social theory of his field.[3] The editorial board asked Sokal to revise and resubmit his article, but he refused and the editors decided to publish the paper as a prominent physicist’s best attempt to develop theory.[4]

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".[5] The journal did not[6] practice academic peer review, and it did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.[7][2] The Sokal article was not retracted by the journal.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "About the Journal". Social Text. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Mystery Science Theater". Lingua Franca. Retrieved 2014-12-10.
  3. ^ Editorial, Board (1996). "Response to the Sokal Affair" (PDF). Physics.NYU.edu. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
  4. ^ "Lingua Franca". linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  5. ^ "The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize Winners". Improbable Research. August 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Peer Review". Social Text. 27 (3): 169–170. 2009. doi:10.1215/01642472-2009-031. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  7. ^ 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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