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Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities IN THEORY 1993 - 2018 ~ 25 YEARS OF ANGELAKI
"Fearless and inventive, this journal has reset t Approaching 2,500 institutions have access to the journal."

“Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities is one of the most important cross-disciplinary journals of the humanities in the world. Founded in Oxford, UK in the early 1990s, and still based there, it has over the course of 25 years published in the region of 1,000 contributions from international writers, including many leading scholars and thinkers, in the fields of European philosophy, lit

erary theory, art and cultural theory, social and political theory. The journal has also frequently included original work by poets and artists. Angelaki is well known for its substantial special issues, many of which have been vanguard collections signposting emerging developments in the field designated by the journal the ‘theoretical humanities’. Angelaki articles are read by readers and researchers throughout the world. In 2015 there were in the region of 60,000 full-text downloads of Angelaki articles.

ANGELAKI HUMANITIESBook series. Manchester University Press.This book series was set up in the mid-1990s and published c...
26/01/2025

ANGELAKI HUMANITIES
Book series. Manchester University Press.
This book series was set up in the mid-1990s and published c. 10 monographs and collections, including three books by the Australian poet and writer John Kinsella. Inactive for some little while now – though not beyond resuscitation – (Manchester is one of the best university presses in the UK) we are pleased with what we published, and almost all the books in the series remain in print.

Showing results 1 - 9 of 9 Book Blog Filters Absolutely postcolonialWriting between the singular and the specific By Peter Hallward We may yet find a precise use for the notoriously elusive category 'postcolonial', but only on the condition that we abandon its usual associations with plurality, frag...

ANGELAKI: NEW WORK IN THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIESBook series.This book series republishes special issues of Angelaki to e...
26/01/2025

ANGELAKI: NEW WORK IN THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES
Book series.
This book series republishes special issues of Angelaki to extend access to our publishing. We would be grateful if people would desist from comments on price: this is academic material for the academic-library market.
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About the Series
New Work in the Theoretical Humanities is associated with Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, a leading international interdisciplinary journal that has done much to consolidate the field of research designated by its subtitle and which has been at the forefront of publication for three decades. The book series publishes generous edited collections across the humanities as informed by European philosophy and literary and cultural theory. It has a strong interest in aesthetics and art theory and also features work in those areas of the social sciences, such as social theory and political theory, that are informed by Angelaki's core disciplinary concentration. This broad latitude is disciplined by a strong sense of identity and the series editors' long experience of research and teaching in the humanities. The Angelaki journal is well known for its exceptionally substantial special issues. New Work in the Theoretical Humanities publishes vanguard collections on current developments in the energetic and increasingly international field of the theoretical humanities as well as volumes on major living thinkers and writers and those of the recent past. Volumes in the series are conceived as broad but integrated treatments of their themes, with the intention of producing contributions to the literature of lasting value.

Routledge & CRC Press Series: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities is associated with Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, a leading international interdisciplinary journal tha

Recent issues from Angelaki…General Issue II (2024)Issue Editor: Salah El MoncefAngelaki 29.6 (2024)
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Recent issues from Angelaki…
General Issue II (2024)
Issue Editor: Salah El Moncef
Angelaki 29.6 (2024)

Volume 29, Issue 6 of Angelaki

26/01/2025

Recent issues from Angelaki…
General Issue I (2024)
Issue Editor: Salah El Moncef
Angelaki 29.5 (2024)

Recent issues from Angelaki…Michel Serres and the SocialIssue Editor: Christopher WatkinAngelaki 29.4 (2024)
26/01/2025

Recent issues from Angelaki…
Michel Serres and the Social
Issue Editor: Christopher Watkin
Angelaki 29.4 (2024)

Volume 29, Issue 4 of Angelaki

Recent issues from Angelaki…Politics of the Flesh: On Eric Santner’s PhilosophyIssue Editors: Dominik Finkelde and Rebek...
26/01/2025

Recent issues from Angelaki…
Politics of the Flesh: On Eric Santner’s Philosophy
Issue Editors: Dominik Finkelde and Rebekka A. Klein
Angelaki 29.3 (2024)
A ground-breaking collection on this major scholar of German thought and culture.

Volume 29, Issue 3 of Angelaki

Recent issues from Angelaki…Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction (double issue)Issue Editor: Barry StockerAngelaki 29.1/2 (...
26/01/2025

Recent issues from Angelaki…
Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction (double issue)
Issue Editor: Barry Stocker
Angelaki 29.1/2 (2024)
20 years on from the death of Jacques Derrida, a major collection.

Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction. Volume 29, Issue 1-2 of Angelaki

Recent issues from Angelaki…General Issue II (2023)Angelaki 28.6 (2023)Issue Editor: Salah El Moncef
26/01/2025

Recent issues from Angelaki…
General Issue II (2023)
Angelaki 28.6 (2023)
Issue Editor: Salah El Moncef

Volume 28, Issue 6 of Angelaki

Recent issues from Angelaki…General Issue I (2023)Angelaki 28.5 (2023)Issue Editor: Salah El Moncef
26/01/2025

Recent issues from Angelaki…
General Issue I (2023)
Angelaki 28.5 (2023)
Issue Editor: Salah El Moncef

Volume 28, Issue 5 of Angelaki

Recent issues from Angelaki…Witnessing the AnthropoceneIssue Editors: Michael Richardson and Magdalena ZolkosAngelaki 28...
26/01/2025

Recent issues from Angelaki…
Witnessing the Anthropocene
Issue Editors: Michael Richardson and Magdalena Zolkos
Angelaki 28.4 (2023)

witnessing the anthropocene. issue editors: michael richardson and magdalena zolkos. Volume 28, Issue 4 of Angelaki

Recent issues from Angelaki…From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of CognitionIssue Editor: Cécile Malaspi...
26/01/2025

Recent issues from Angelaki…
From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Cognition
Issue Editor: Cécile Malaspina
Angelaki 28.3 (2023)

from the mental state of noise to the new frontiers of cognition. issue editor: cécile malaspina. Volume 28, Issue 3 of Angelaki

It has been 20 years since the death of Jacques Derrida, to mark the occasion Angelaki is pleased to announce publicatio...
13/06/2024

It has been 20 years since the death of Jacques Derrida, to mark the occasion Angelaki is pleased to announce publication of:

DERRIDA : ETHICS IN DECONSTRUCTION

Double issue, edited by Barry Stocker.

Derrida: Ethics in Deconstruction. Volume 29, Issue 1-2 of Angelaki

20/05/2024

Pacifism - Special Issue and Book - Call for Abstracts
deadline for submissions:
May 31, 2024
full name / name of organization:
Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities (Routledge)
contact email:
[email protected]
Edited by John Kinsella and Nicholas Birns

Abstract of c. 500 words by the end of May 2024. For publication April 2025. See below for full details.

The issue is concerned with pacifism as both a mode of conceptualising and also interacting with the world. Non-violence is a characteristic of various spiritual and secular modes of both maintaining peace and also enacting conflict resolution, and this issue will have a strong focus on these agenci...

18/05/2024

A fast-track project.

Call for Abstracts, Special Issue on Pacifism

Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities

Edited by John Kinsella and Nicholas Birns

Abstract of c. 500 words by the end of May 2024. For publication April 2025. See below for further details.

The issue is concerned with pacifism as both a mode of conceptualising and also interacting with the world. Non-violence is a characteristic of various spiritual and secular modes of both maintaining peace and also enacting conflict resolution, and this issue will have a strong focus on these agencies, but further, pacifism as a system of perceiving and interacting with the world, as a ‘complete’ philosophy will be considered.

Questions around pacifism as a human to human belief, or as a more encompassing belief in non-violence to all animal life will be considered. Further, is violence against the inanimate merely an issue of degrees, or is all change that operates with violent intentionality a contravening of pacifist ideals. The issue is interested in definitions of violence beyond the human and whether or not a pacifism that resists extinction, resists erasure, resists speciesism can coincide with non-violence in human relations.

In opposing war is the conscientious objector always a pacifist or are reasons more a case by case and context-driven issue? What are the special as well as personal parameters of pacifism? Can there be sustainable pacifist communities that are secular as well as the more historically defined ‘spiritual’? A pacifist will never see any war as being just, but we are interested in how attempts to justify violence lead to a faux politics of peace: violent acts to protect the peace, the issue of deterrence and balance of power. We are not interested in justifications of these positions, but rather pacifist arguments or argument drawing on pacifist knowledges that counter these arguments. There are plenty of affirmations for violence out there, and this issue is not about those.

We are particularly interested in work about those who have made non-violent choices to their social detriment, essays on recording or analysing anti-militarism, documents of non-violent anti-nuclear activism, considerations of modes of protest against the violence of the state, military, police, sporting (including crowd violence) or corporate bodies. Pacifism and environmental protest is a specific focus. And an examination of witness and reportage is another focus.

For example, this issue strongly orientates against colonialism and adopts a critical approach to the capitalist state, but (or and!) in doing so seeks pacifist models for restoring dignity and rights to the oppressed and compensating where possible for these vast wrongs. This issue is definitively anti-racist, but (and) seeks pacifist modes for redressing and alleviating these wrongs. And the same applies to all injustice of identity, gender, spiritual belief. How are inequities and crimes of the past and present addressed in pacifist ways? How can there be an effective pacifist resistance?

Rejecting Frantz Fanon’s notion that the colonised can only gain liberty and justice out of the ‘rotting co**se of the settler’, this issue nonetheless maintains that settler culture must be subject to critique. How is this achieved? These are the questions that I hope will be answered in the issue.

We welcome rereadings of historic texts, challenges to conventions of reading history, negotiations of political and ethical texts, finding a way through texts that are both violent and non-violent to resolve non-violent modes and methods. We would welcome personal memoirs of pacifist living, of alleviations of violence, and of methods for reducing the chance of violence in community and ‘conflict’ situations. This issue seeks to enact a mutual aid via peace.

SUBMISSION

This is a fast-track project.

Send your title and an abstract of c. 500 words, with a brief 'bioblurb', by 31 May 2024 to both:

John Kinsella , Nicholas Birns

with: 'Angelaki Pacifism Abstract' at the start of your subject line.

(In cases of exceptional interest, documentary and creative work, written and visual, may also be considered, send sample/s and details of your project, with 'bioblurb', to the editors by 31 May 2024 with 'Angelaki Pacifism Creative' at the start of your subject line.)

Full essays (5000-7000 words) by 1 September 2024.
Peer review completed by 15 December 2024.
Delivery of all final material to the editors by 15 February 2025.
Editors deliver for publication by 15 April 2025.

04/05/2024

Call for Abstracts, Special Issue on Pacifism
Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities

Edited by John Kinsella and Nicholas Birns

Abstract of c. 500 words by the end of May 2024. For publication April 2025. See below for further details.

The issue is concerned with pacifism as both a mode of conceptualising and also interacting with the world. Non-violence is a characteristic of various spiritual and secular modes of both maintaining peace and also enacting conflict resolution, and this issue will have a strong focus on these agencies, but further, pacifism as a system of perceiving and interacting with the world, as a ‘complete’ philosophy will be considered.

Questions around pacifism as a human to human belief, or as a more encompassing belief in non-violence to all animal life will be considered. Further, is violence against the inanimate merely an issue of degrees, or is all change that operates with violent intentionality a contravening of pacifist ideals. The issue is interested in definitions of violence beyond the human and whether or not a pacifism that resists extinction, resists erasure, resists speciesism can coincide with non-violence in human relations.

In opposing war is the conscientious objector always a pacifist or are reasons more a case by case and context-driven issue? What are the special as well as personal parameters of pacifism? Can there be sustainable pacifist communities that are secular as well as the more historically defined ‘spiritual’? A pacifist will never see any war as being just, but we are interested in how attempts to justify violence lead to a faux politics of peace: violent acts to protect the peace, the issue of deterrence and balance of power. We are not interested in justifications of these positions, but rather pacifist arguments or argument drawing on pacifist knowledges that counter these arguments. There are plenty of affirmations for violence out there, and this issue is not about those.

We are particularly interested in work about those who have made non-violent choices to their social detriment, essays on recording or analysing anti-militarism, documents of non-violent anti-nuclear activism, considerations of modes of protest against the violence of the state, military, police, sporting (including crowd violence) or corporate bodies. Pacifism and environmental protest is a specific focus. And an examination of witness and reportage is another focus.

For example, this issue strongly orientates against colonialism and adopts a critical approach to the capitalist state, but (or and!) in doing so seeks pacifist models for restoring dignity and rights to the oppressed and compensating where possible for these vast wrongs. This issue is definitively anti-racist, but (and) seeks pacifist modes for redressing and alleviating these wrongs. And the same applies to all injustice of identity, gender, spiritual belief. How are inequities and crimes of the past and present addressed in pacifist ways? How can there be an effective pacifist resistance?

Rejecting Frantz Fanon’s notion that the colonised can only gain liberty and justice out of the ‘rotting co**se of the settler’, this issue nonetheless maintains that settler culture must be subject to critique. How is this achieved? These are the questions that I hope will be answered in the issue.

We welcome rereadings of historic texts, challenges to conventions of reading history, negotiations of political and ethical texts, finding a way through texts that are both violent and non-violent to resolve non-violent modes and methods. We would welcome personal memoirs of pacifist living, of alleviations of violence, and of methods for reducing the chance of violence in community and ‘conflict’ situations. This issue seeks to enact a mutual aid via peace.

SUBMISSION
This is a fast-track project.
Send your title and an abstract of c. 500 words, with a brief 'bioblurb', by 31 May 2024 to both:
John Kinsella , Nicholas Birns
with: 'Angelaki Pacifism Abstract' at the start of your subject line.
(In cases of exceptional interest, documentary and creative work, written and visual, may also be considered, send sample/s and details of your project, with 'bioblurb', to the editors by 31 May 2024 with 'Angelaki Pacifism Creative' at the start of your subject line.)
Full essays (5000-7000 words) by 1 September 2024.
Peer review completed by 15 December 2024.
Delivery of all final material to the editors by 15 February 2025.
Editors deliver for publication by 15 April 2025.

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Due to mounting pressure of excellent submissions and special-issue proposals, we are delighted to announce that in 2018, the journal’s 25th anniversary year, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities will increase its frequency from four to six issues per volume. From 2018 the annual volume will normally comprise four special issues and two general (nontheme) issues.

“Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities is one of the most important cross-disciplinary journals of the humanities in the world. Founded in Oxford, UK in the early 1990s, and still based there, it has over the course of 25 years published in the region of 1,000 contributions from international writers, including many leading scholars and thinkers, in the fields of European philosophy, literary theory, art and cultural theory, social and political theory. The journal has also frequently included original work by poets and artists. Angelaki is well known for its substantial special issues, many of which have been vanguard collections signposting emerging developments in the field designated by the journal the ‘theoretical humanities’. Angelaki articles are read by scholars throughout the world. By 2015 approaching 2,500 institutions had access to the journal.”