Announcement: a new publication is (probably) coming -- on the theme of metacrisis philosophy
Just a quick announcement -
Some folks I’m talking with are in agreement: The world is in need of a venue or forum for publishing articles, essays and the like which address the metacrisis (and polycrisis, etc.) in a philosophical light — in the light of philosophy.
We’re imagining an internet-based (at least initially) publishing venue for this kind of writing. It would be philosophical discussions of the metacrisis, basically. But our aim would be to make it largely accessible to those who are not professional philosophers. So it would be “popular philosophy” of a sort, though you may require a little familiarity with the ideas and language of philosophy to get the most of of what we will be publishing there. We would welcome (and publish) submissions from those who are not professional or academic philosophers. Indeed, this would be one of our core commitments.
But we’d also welcome submissions from academic philosophers, especially those which are able to find a middle ground between writing for a popular and an academic audience, and so accessible to a wider audience than that of academic philosophers.
There will be no pay wall.
The rough and loose plan at the moment is to keep costs to as bare a minimum as possible, initially. This means we would not pay writers for their work, and the editors (etc.) will likewise likely be fully volunteer — at least initially.
If this idea enthuses you, let us know. We may invite you into our design process as a volunteer. And if you’d like to consider contributing your writing, once we’re up and running, do let us know. Maybe you’d like to be part of our editing team? That, too, may be possible.
You can email me, James, at jrivermartin at Gmail dot com .
We may have to develop a "hybrid" version of the above plan, in which a multi-faceted funding approach is developed and enacted, thus enabling some payment to contributors and editors, while still setting out with the premise of keeping initial costs (in phase one of development) very low. None of these decisions are for me to make. Whatever we do will be decided collaboratively.