Transparency
Transparency is one of the buzzwords of today’s political and organizational discourse. At heart an aesthetics of the becoming-visible, transparency is at once an injunction to communicate, as well as a moral imperative. It posits itself as the necessary but also sufficient condition of a number of mediatic and political virtues that are ardently pursued but rarely questioned. This special issue explores the notion of transparency using the tools of the Humanities.
Focus Editors: Jeremy Hamers, Ingrid Mayeur, François Provenzano, Élise Schürgers, and Jan Teurlings
Call for papers
Postliberalism
Volume 35, Nos. 1-2 [2027]
Focus Editors: Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Paul Allen Miller
We no longer live in the world that brought forth the great liberal revolutions of the nineteenth century, the rise of neoliberalism in the thought and politics of Hayek, Friedman, Thatcher and Reagan, or the short-lived triumphalism of Francis Fukuyama and the rise of neoconservatism at the turn of the millennium. How then do we theorize the present cultural moment?
Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2026
Theory after Extinction
Volume 36, Nos. 1-2 [2028]
Focus Editors: Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Christian Moraru
How current theoretical practice, whether in relation to gender, genre, decolonialization, class, materiality, the unconscious, pop culture, Big Data, World Literature, or any other subject of this import, is being shaped by the problematics and urgencies of extinction.
Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2027
Book series: Anthem Symplokē Studies in Theory.
Winner of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals’ Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement