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Next issue - 53 (2/2026) - tissues/things/matters

2025-01-07

Next issue - 53 (2/2026) - tissues/things/matters
Submission deadline: 15 Sept. 2025

Although the Western humanities have attempted to organise the world critically and creatively by referring to stable categories of subjects and objects, they still largely fail to grasp tangible reality. The intellectual framework supposed to pinpoint it often backlashes in a utopian view, which, instead of making it possible for us to cognise the material, locates it in irreducible distance, impossibility, or aporia. Continental literary and cultural theories of the so-called “Linguistic Turn” are arguably the last descendants of this tendency, as they effectively reduce the humanities to textual determinism. After all, thinking rooted in two-fold signs has never intended to bind a concept with its material counterpart. It rather privileges an auditory or visual residue of reality: a signal supposed to evoke the concept. (Click here to read the full CFP)

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Next issue – 52 (1/2026) – manlines/un-manliness/anti-manliness

2024-10-03

Next issue – 52 (1/2026) - manliness/un-manliness/anti-manliness

Submission deadline: 30 January, 2025

The critique of patriarchy, prevalent in contemporary humanistic discourses, has relegated the notion of masculinity to the status of a historical anachronism identified with most of the dramas of the contemporary world, from corporate-military imperialism to objectification of women to environmental devastation. Fuelled by constantly reproduced media stereotypes, masculinity/manliness has become synonymous with innate aggression, programmatic dominance, perpetual competition, ubiquitous rationalism, and the relentless need for optimisation and efficiency legitimised by the measurable successes of the Western model of socio-technological existence. And when views that challenge masculine identity built on these stereotypes come to the fore, the identity in question is almost immediately perceived in terms of a new collocation - a crisis of masculinity and of manliness. (Click here to read the whole CFP).

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Submissions now closed - 50 (1/2025) - reflection/distance/irony

2023-10-14

Submissions now closed - 50 (1/2025) -  reflection/distance/irony  (Click here to read the full CFP)

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Submissions now closed – 51 (2/2025) - ruins/remnants/remains

2023-10-14

Next issue – 51 (2/2025) - ruins/remnants/remains
Submissions now closed

Even though ruins tend to tell complete stories and refer to destroyed worlds, they rarely function as domains of “void” or “lack.” On the contrary, ruins are vibrant places which actively distribute matter and meaning, and foster ample social and cultural imageries. Similarly, remnants, remains, rubbish, and rubble draw our attention to the uncanny everyday afterlife of objects. (Click here to read the whole CFP).

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