Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power
We invite contributions for a special issue entitled “Loving to Unlearn: bell hooks, Critical Pedagogy and Affective Education”, edited by Victoria Allen, Harald Pittel and Garret Scally and scheduled for release in late 2025.
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Issue 12 is now online!
We invite contributions for a special issue entitled “The Politics of Home”, edited by Kristin Aubel and Sarah Heinz and scheduled for release in winter 2024.
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“Burning the Ballot: Feminism Meets Anarchy”, a special issue edited by Tammy Kovich and Adam Gary Lewis, is out now!
In 2024, Coils of the Serpent will publish a special issue entitled “The Necropolitics of Environmental Decline”, edited by Nicole Grimaldi.
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Our tenth issue is now online!
To mark the centenary of Raymond Williams, here is issue 9 of Coils of the Serpent: “Beyond Crisis: Raymond Williams and the Present Conjuncture”, edited by Victoria Allen and Harald Pittel. Enjoy!
In late 2022, Coils of the Serpent will publish a special issue entitled “Burning the Ballot: Feminism Meets Anarchy”, edited by Tammy Kovich and Adam Lewis.
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Issue 8 of Coils of the Serpent is out now! This is another special issue, entitled “Im/Possibility: On the Production, Distribution, and Articulation of the Possible and the Impossible” and edited by Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Cord-Christian Casper, Emmanuel Tristan Kugland, and Marlon Lieber.
“Crowd(ed) Futures”, a special issue edited by Mark Schmitt and Solvejg Nitzke, is now online!
“Control Societies II: Philosophy, Politics, Economy”, edited by Florian Cord and Simon Schleusener, is now online!
“Crowd(ed) Futures” will be released in December, “Im/Possibility” in January. Stay tuned!
Issue 5 of Coils of the Serpent, entitled “Control Societies I: Media, Culture, Technology” and edited by Florian Cord and Simon Schleusener, is now online! This is the first volume of two special issues dedicated to Gilles Deleuze’s “Postscript on Control Societies”. We invite everyone to comment, share their thoughts, and participate in the debate!
“Control Societies II: Philosophy, Politics, Economy” will follow shortly!
In the summer of 2021, Coils of the Serpent will publish a special issue entitled “Beyond Crisis: Raymond Williams and the Present Conjuncture”, guest-edited by Victoria Allen and Harald Pittel.
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The special issue entitled “Societies of Control” will be released shortly, and the ones on “Im/Possibility” and “Crowd(ed) Futures” will follow in late summer and winter of this year, respectively. More very soon!
Issue 4 of Coils of the Serpent is now online! As always, we welcome comments and debate.
In early 2020, Coils of the Serpent will publish a special issue entitled “Im/Possibility: On the Production, Distribution, and Articulation of the Possible and the Impossible,” which will be guest-edited by Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Cord-Christian Casper, Emmanuel Tristan Kugland, and Marlon Lieber.
The issue intents to examine various facets, modes, and agents of the material and symbolic production, distribution, and articulation of im/possibility across various media. It seeks to analyze and critique the dominant forms of im/possibility from the perspectives of critical theory, psychoanalysis, philosophy, history, sociology, political science, literature, and cultural studies, and to debate the pressing questions of what material, discursive, psychosocial and affective constraints on subjectivity and agency exist today that help reproduce or contest a neoliberal and increasingly authoritarian “consensus,” or what Jacques Rancière has aptly called “the police distribution of the sensible.” We hope to bring together authors who draw on (post-)Marxist critical theory and/or the tradition of Birmingham Cultural Studies to analyze and critique the historical formation, material conditions, cultural representation, and political distribution or articulation of the im/possibility of radical social transformation, new forms of social struggle and solidarity, automation and digitalization, green capitalism, neoliberalism, economic nationalism, fascism, gender abolition, black liberation, communism, and all forms of emancipatory practice.
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