2/ To count it must satisfy 3 conditions: i) the essay must produce a consequential idea internally, not merely convey consequential news
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3/ It must ii) "disturb the peace" in some sense, outside the predictable institutional boundaries where it nominally has currency
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It seems science is characterized by a long list of short papers that satisfy your consequential criteria, not limited to a subculture.
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I don't count science papers because the consequential idea is merely conveyed by the essay form, not generated by it.
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What were its specific broad consequences?
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Francis Fukuyama's original "End of History?" essay: https://ps321.community.uaf.edu/files/2012/10/Fukuyama-End-of-history-article.pdf …
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Then Samuel Huntington's 1993, "Clash of Civilizations?" - http://users.metu.edu.tr/utuba/Huntington.pdf …
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Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
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The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes.
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In praise of idleness by Bertrand Russell.
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