Where do I send stuff?
To my email: contingentdivinizations@gmail.com. If you'd like to mail, that's cool too; my address is under the contact tab.
*Three Important Things*
1. Submissions are rolling and always welcomed. If it can't make it into this issue, it'll go toward the next.
2. I will, within reason and as long as they adhere to the theme, accept as many as possible!
3. Any language is fine. These will be published in English though. If you have a translator, we can involve them; otherwise I can do my best to find a translator for you. (If you are into translating, let's talk! Maybe we can have these printed in multiple languages).
What type of thing are you looking for?
All in all, I'm open to just about anything that can fit within the form of a zine. Some examples could be:
1. GENERAL: essays / manifestos / documentation / journaling / lists / pictures / drawings / scores (music) / poems / fragments / drafts / letters / stories / fiction / science-fiction / comic strips .... and so on! Pitch away.
2. ONGOING (SPECIAL) CALL: letters to the dead / documentation of experiences with the dead / voices from the dead / experiments geared toward the dead. Resurrection and the dead play a big role in this philosophy (see: Spectral Dilemma). I hope to include at least one of these things in each issue, under the serial heading "Correspondences with the Dead."
3. EMAIL INTERVIEWS: I'm happy to conduct and publish an email interview with anyone about Meillassoux, my questions here, and your work. Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to do that.
In terms of subject material, the about section will give a good sense. I'm looking for things like:
...documentations or experiments of literal practices people are engaging in; theoretical/philosophical connections drawn from Meillassoux's eschatological 'turn' (Bloch? Benjamin? Nietzsche? Kierkegaard? Taubes? Keller? Fanon?); speculations into the 4 worlds of matter, life, thought, and justice -- thinking back into past 'worlds' as well as toward the next; artistic interventions as means of vectoralizing oneself or a community; contemporaries to Meillassoux's Mallarme, today, in the past?; critiques or clarifications of the very large concepts of 'justice' and the 'thinking being' and the 'good' etc; new 'figures' derived from absolute contingency; expansions on the 'empty sign'; theories of non-relation, of heterogeneity; speculative fiction toward the next world; visions of the fourth world that is not a world of justice; absolute contingency as ontological basis of anarchism; what concrete effects today we can see developing by way of absolute contingency, especially as a means of dismantling capital and/or the state (Lenin?); how the call for the 'vectoral militant' is enacted across gender, race, class, sexual orientation, climate, geographical area, etc (and all of things intertwined existence); what happens to regimes of vital beings and/or material beings if a fourth world comes to pass...
What are the formal restrictions?
None, really. Well...
I won't usually do color. I can, but we'd have to discuss it. Obviously it's more expensive.
Medium to shorter pieces are good (say 5,000 words or less), but I'm completely OK with longer pieces. We could, for instance, have one zine issue dedicated to a single very long essay. Or a long essay split into serial-like parts, per issue! We'd discuss it. But I'm super open to things that might not fit in other kinds of publications.
If you're not sure, just email me and ask. Chances are I'll make it work!
How big is a run, what's it look like? Will I get some?
50 copies. Then I'll print to order. I'll likely make them available online after a certain number have be sent out.
B & W / 8.5" x 11" folded in half / 60lb cover, off-white / 32lb pages, ivory.
Around 40 pages per issue. I will make it longer or shorter, depending on submissions.
People who are in a given issue will get 5 copies. Give them to friends! & if you want more email me and I'll send them.
(If you have something in one issue and would like to keep receiving future issues, I'll send them too.)
'Rules' for publishing?
Basically, send whatever you like. I don't care if its been published elsewhere (good for you!), and I don't care if you publish something here and then publish it elsewhere. Those kind of restrictions are silly. If it's interesting material that you're excited about, the more people that can see it, the merrier. Also these are, obviously, short run zines sent among a small & likely odd group of people -- I doubt too many people who are overly concerned about 'publishing rules' will even know this zine exists! (I mean, in short: anti-copyright).
To my email: contingentdivinizations@gmail.com. If you'd like to mail, that's cool too; my address is under the contact tab.
*Three Important Things*
1. Submissions are rolling and always welcomed. If it can't make it into this issue, it'll go toward the next.
2. I will, within reason and as long as they adhere to the theme, accept as many as possible!
3. Any language is fine. These will be published in English though. If you have a translator, we can involve them; otherwise I can do my best to find a translator for you. (If you are into translating, let's talk! Maybe we can have these printed in multiple languages).
What type of thing are you looking for?
All in all, I'm open to just about anything that can fit within the form of a zine. Some examples could be:
1. GENERAL: essays / manifestos / documentation / journaling / lists / pictures / drawings / scores (music) / poems / fragments / drafts / letters / stories / fiction / science-fiction / comic strips .... and so on! Pitch away.
2. ONGOING (SPECIAL) CALL: letters to the dead / documentation of experiences with the dead / voices from the dead / experiments geared toward the dead. Resurrection and the dead play a big role in this philosophy (see: Spectral Dilemma). I hope to include at least one of these things in each issue, under the serial heading "Correspondences with the Dead."
3. EMAIL INTERVIEWS: I'm happy to conduct and publish an email interview with anyone about Meillassoux, my questions here, and your work. Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to do that.
In terms of subject material, the about section will give a good sense. I'm looking for things like:
...documentations or experiments of literal practices people are engaging in; theoretical/philosophical connections drawn from Meillassoux's eschatological 'turn' (Bloch? Benjamin? Nietzsche? Kierkegaard? Taubes? Keller? Fanon?); speculations into the 4 worlds of matter, life, thought, and justice -- thinking back into past 'worlds' as well as toward the next; artistic interventions as means of vectoralizing oneself or a community; contemporaries to Meillassoux's Mallarme, today, in the past?; critiques or clarifications of the very large concepts of 'justice' and the 'thinking being' and the 'good' etc; new 'figures' derived from absolute contingency; expansions on the 'empty sign'; theories of non-relation, of heterogeneity; speculative fiction toward the next world; visions of the fourth world that is not a world of justice; absolute contingency as ontological basis of anarchism; what concrete effects today we can see developing by way of absolute contingency, especially as a means of dismantling capital and/or the state (Lenin?); how the call for the 'vectoral militant' is enacted across gender, race, class, sexual orientation, climate, geographical area, etc (and all of things intertwined existence); what happens to regimes of vital beings and/or material beings if a fourth world comes to pass...
What are the formal restrictions?
None, really. Well...
I won't usually do color. I can, but we'd have to discuss it. Obviously it's more expensive.
Medium to shorter pieces are good (say 5,000 words or less), but I'm completely OK with longer pieces. We could, for instance, have one zine issue dedicated to a single very long essay. Or a long essay split into serial-like parts, per issue! We'd discuss it. But I'm super open to things that might not fit in other kinds of publications.
If you're not sure, just email me and ask. Chances are I'll make it work!
How big is a run, what's it look like? Will I get some?
50 copies. Then I'll print to order. I'll likely make them available online after a certain number have be sent out.
B & W / 8.5" x 11" folded in half / 60lb cover, off-white / 32lb pages, ivory.
Around 40 pages per issue. I will make it longer or shorter, depending on submissions.
People who are in a given issue will get 5 copies. Give them to friends! & if you want more email me and I'll send them.
(If you have something in one issue and would like to keep receiving future issues, I'll send them too.)
'Rules' for publishing?
Basically, send whatever you like. I don't care if its been published elsewhere (good for you!), and I don't care if you publish something here and then publish it elsewhere. Those kind of restrictions are silly. If it's interesting material that you're excited about, the more people that can see it, the merrier. Also these are, obviously, short run zines sent among a small & likely odd group of people -- I doubt too many people who are overly concerned about 'publishing rules' will even know this zine exists! (I mean, in short: anti-copyright).
