Metamodern Journal Launch

Call for Papers

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm and I are excited to announce a new academic journal, Metamodern Theory & Praxis, based out of Williams College. Our first issue will publish early next year, and we have a call for papers out until January 15. We are also looking to build out our advisory board. Here’s a video with the main details:

Check out the webpage for more info: https://sts.williams.edu/metamodern/

Here’s what you need to know:

Metamodern Theory and Praxis is a new, peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to bleeding-edge work in the Human Sciences (Humanities + Social Sciences) and focused on the unfolding paradigm(s) of metamodern theory and praxis. That is, it’s the first and currently only journal dedicated to metamodernism. Please, submit your work for our first issue. We are especially interested in the following sorts of submissions: (1) work advancing metamodern theory, and (2) work exhibiting artistic and/or political praxis.

(1) Advancing metamodern theory

We are interested in works in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, and especially social ontology that work to advance, refine, refute, or (especially) develop the metamodern paradigm. This could be work that engages with Storm’s 2021 Metamodernism: The Future of Theory, departs from other metamodern thinkers, or consists of original theorizing.

We are also interested in scholarship that applies metamodern theory to specific case studies (such as applying metamodern semiotics (e.g., hylosemiotics) to communication among wolf packs, or the notion of “process social kinds” to the historical study of Islam, etc.). The word “metamodern” does not need to occur in your work, though we are especially interested in scholarship that advances or utilizes some of the central components of the metamodern paradigm. We are also interested in other post-postmodern projects that seek to move beyond postmodernism by means of postmodernism (i.e., not simply reactionary anti-postmodernisms or traditionalisms).

We are open to attempts to analyze the current cultural moment. Accounts of metamodernity are admissible, but one needs to make the case for why the culture-forms under analysis share the cluster of properties being analyzed. This may include attempts to identify emerging movements (artistic, religious, cultural), which do not need to be pegged to some notion of the metamodern but could instead be discussed in their own right. 

We agree with Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s call for an “emancipatory, non-relativistic, cosmopolitan ecology of knowledges” and are interested in work that originates in a decolonizing mode, engaging indigenous epistemologies and non-Eurocentric theoretical formulations. But these need to make arguments that are not merely based on traditional authority. We are especially interested in works that make progress and positive contributions.

(2) Artistic and political praxis

Even more important than the journal’s commitment to philosophical analysis, we are interested in producing a new metamodern world. For this reason, we want to dedicate part of the journal to non-peer reviewed works whose aspiration is to call into being or exemplify metamodernism rather than merely describe it. We therefore invite submissions that explore the intersection of metamodern theory and praxis. This can include political theory, but we are especially interested in “on the ground” applications. What does metamodern engagement look like in action? How does metamodern epistemology or politics manifest when taken to the streets? This interest in on-the-ground application extends to the arts. We invite you to share art, poetry, photography, and creative works of any medium that somehow exemplify the metamodern paradigm shift.

All submissions can be sent to MetamodernEditor​@gmail​.com. 

See the webpage for Submission and Author Guidelines.