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March 31, 2007
Notes for Contributors
Contributors:
To streamline the editing process, we ask contributors to adhere to style guidelines (see PDF file here). We also supply a Word (.doc) template (here - also contains the style guide): by pasting your document into this template the risk of inadvertently introducing typographical anomalies in the final article is reduced. (Of course, we send all authors PDF proofs for approval before printing).
Prospective Contributors.
We are often contacted by authors asking 'do you accept contributions for Collapse?'. There is no real answer to this question... Each volume of Collapse (so far) has tended to grow of its own accord, picking up contributors along the way. We do not wish to discourage you from sending unsolicited contributions - indeed we welcome them - but since we work unpaid and do not employ staff we may not have time to reply in detail to all communications. Also each volume of Collapse is assembled very much through a crafting process in which we include pieces which promise to fit together to form an intriguing whole. We would obviously not want to turn away material of quality, but this conception of each volume as a heterogeneous-but-coherent whole is very important. Also, we tend to choose not to publish work which would readily be accepted in other, more mainstream (academic) journals. Themes for volumes are generally given on the website at least three or four months in advance, but there are usually several other possible volumes in the pipeline.
In short, we can't promise anything, but why not give it a try ... email your texts, images, or other(?) to office@urbanomic.com.
About Collapse
Collapse, an independent, non-affiliated Journal of Philosophical Research and Development, was launched in 2006. The aim of the journal, which is printed twice yearly in a limited edition of 1000, is to bring together philosophers and theorists, artists and scientists to explore fundamental themes and ideas which academic philosophy, in its tendency towards specialisation and partisanship, increasingly fails to address.
Each volume is carefully curated so that contributions from very different areas of research intersect in unexpected and productive ways, suggesting new lines of thought. Attention to design and overall feel make Collapse an aesthetic as well as an intellectual pleasure, as can be confirmed by its varied readership (philosophers, cultural theorists, architects, scientists, artists, theologians...) which spans the globe, from London to New York, Oslo to Tokyo, Taiwan to Cairo.
Since its inception in 2006, Collapse has published pioneering work in philosophy from the UK, US, Europe and the Middle East, along with ground-breaking interviews with scientists, new work from contemporary artists, and documents in 'live philosophy'.
Click the links above to read about each of the published volumes of Collapse.
About Urbanomic
Urbanomic is a small, independent publisher specialising in contemporary philosophy. We are committed to supporting fundamental research and development in logical, ontological and abstract matters, outside any institutional framework, without thematic, disciplinary or methodological constraints.
We are interested in publishing: innovative work in philosophy; new translations of neglected works in European philosophy; art editions and monographs; experimental writing.
Our current publication is Collapse, the Journal of Philosophical Research and Development. In 2009 we will begin to publish a series of new theoretical, philosophical and literary works.
