10/02/2022
Happy Thursday! We in Puncta are delighted to announce the publication of our latest special issue, "Pandemic Politics and Phenomenology," edited by guest editors Jessica Stanier, Nicole Miglio, and Luna Dolezal.
In this issue, phenomenologists have been invited to critically engage with lived experiences of pandemic life and the much anticipated "return to normal." As the editors write in their introduction: "From a critical-phenomenological perspective, this preoccupation with returning to the “normal,” along with contested definitions of a 'new normal,' highlights a number of problematic assumptions about our shared lived reality. These assumptions largely fail to acknowledge the remarkable disparities in social privilege and power within and between societies across the globe, occluding the inextricable intercorporeality and interdependency relating individuals within communities and societies."
The issue features contributes by Qrescent Mali Mason, Noorie Chowdhury, and Sofia Esner; Hans-Georg Eilenberger, Annemie Halsema, and Lotte Schuitmaker; Danielle Petherbridge, Ragna Winniewski; Luna Dolezal and Gemma Lucas; Dylan Trigg; and Sara Cohen Shabot. As always, all Puncta articles are openly available online for everyone to read. You can access the full issue here: http://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/pjcp/issue/view/593
Puncta is an open-access, peer-reviewed philosophical journal dedicated to the belief that phenomenology is not a mere descriptive practice, but an enactment of critique, that is, an ongoing process of revealing and interrogating the concrete conditions, institutions, and assumptions that structure....
