Inscriptions, an international journal of contemporary thinking on art, philosophy, and psycho-analysis, invites contributions to our upcoming open issue (vol. 3, no. 2). We are looking for well-crafted and skillfully written scholarly essays and literary fiction (poetry, aphorisms, short stories, fables, literary essays, etc.) that in some way engage our mandate.
Read more about Inscriptions 3, no. 2: Open Invitation
Outsourcing is a way to get someone else to act on our behalf. In psycho-analysis the term is also used for instances of exteriorised reception, politics, or belief. This issue of Inscriptions considers cases when such outsourcing is non-subjectivised, i.e. when there is a knowledge "out there," in the Real, but where it is not yet possible to say who it is that believes. Tidhar Nir's essay on the experience of shock in art explores how the ego can be resituated within such knowledges, while Jørgen Veisland proposes a model for how the artistic imagination shields itself from, and yet incorporates, knowledges "in the Real." This "Real" is very much present in the work of our editor Sharif Abdunnur, who explains what it is like to teach in the context of an ongoing revolt in Lebanon. We also present a series of paste-ups and murals by the street artist AFK that bring up complex debates while also giving us a glimpse into the holy.
Cover image: "The Shift (detail)," oil on canvas, by AFK (c) 2019. Used by permission.
Inscriptions is a peer-reviewed international journal that features articles, creative writing and artwork that engage our mandate. Please make your submission through this editorial and publishing system. Register as an author by clicking the Make a submission button on this page. After verifying your e-mail address you may then log in to your account and select New submission. We encourage authors to submit a 150 word proposal for an indicative recommendation from the issue editor/editor-in-chief prior to submitting a full manuscript. Work published by Inscriptions will be Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Inscriptions is published twice a year.
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