Singularum operates on the premise that every facet of life yields transformative aesthetic encounters. It provides an independent venue for theorizing, transmitting, and staging these encounters. Its strategic aim is to exhibit thinking born at the interface of aesthetics & pedagogy.










The prestige of Alphonso Lingis as a translator, and his very personal philosophical voice, may explain why the philosophical community has not yet recognized the radical reorientation of phenomenology that has taken shape under Lingis’s pen for the last twenty years. Our hope is that by dedicating our first issue of Singularum to his invention of another phenomenology, this oversight may be corrected, and a new appreciation or education of the senses can get underway. We imagine this issue provoking, at last, attempts to understand Lingis’s difference in phenomenology, and the difference his phenomenology of levels makes to our appreciation of aesthetics, education, ethics, ontology, and perception.


In addition to the collection of essays below, we have a special interview with Alphonso Lingis, conducted by Bobby George and Tom Sparrow, an original poem by renowned poet Dorothea Lasky, and a series of letter exchanges between Alphonso Lingis and David Karnos.





"Some Early Notes Toward An Ontology of Fetishes"

Written by: Jeffrey Barbeau

"Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear"

Written by: Timothy Morton

"Alterity and Life in the Thought of Alphonso Lingis"

Written by: John Protevi

"The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common"

Written by: Jeffrey Nealon

"What is an Imperative?"

Written by: Dorothea Olkowski

"Becoming-troglodyte"

Written by: Joff Bradley

"Interview with Lingis"

By: Jonas Skackauskas

"Violence and Splendor"

Written by: Graham Harman












Call for Papers

With the first issue of Singularum now available, we'll be posting a new call for papers very shortly. In the meantime, stay tuned for some more exciting announcements.

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