Volume 34, Nos. 1-2 [2026]
Focus Editors: Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Sophia A. McClennen
Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2025

This issue aims to theorize, contextualize, and envision the concept of insurrection in contemporary political life. Today insurrections are everywhere, but are these social disruptions real efforts towards systemic change or are they nothing more than performance? And what of current insurrectionist movements that seek not to overthrow political authority but, rather, reinforce and fortify it? Insurrection today may be revolting, but is it revolutionary?

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Volume 33, Nos. 1-2 [2025]
Focus Editors: Jeremy Hamers, Ingrid Mayeur, François Provenzano, Élise Schürgers, and Jan Teurlings
Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2024

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.

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Volume 32, Nos. 1-2 [2024]
Focus Editors Aaron Jaffe and Robin Truth Goodman
Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2023

Papers will pursue such questions as: what might commitment to a critical environment of theoretical heterodoxy look like? How to discern an “outside” of theory already inside nature? How theorizing impasses in humanism might think through and contest environmental crises and ecocide without nihilism or quietism or without re-inscribing anthropomorphism as a last breath for—or last gasp— of human hubris?

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