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 events. 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 been taking shape under Lingis’ 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 can be corrected, and a new appreciation or education of the senses can get underway. We imagine this issue provoking, at last, an attempt to understand Lingis’ difference in phenomenology, and the difference this phenomenology of levels makes to Lingis' appreciation of aesthetics, education, ethics, ontology, and perception.
While the inaugural issue of Singularum will be published soon, we want to provide everyone with a preview of the contents below. Also, we would like to make available now, a very special contribution by the renown poet, Dorothea Lasky.
"Some Early Notes Toward An Ontology of Fetishes."
Written by: Jeff 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
"On Alphonso Lingis."
Written by: Mario Perniola
"Violence and Splendor."
Written by: Graham Harman
Call for Papers
With the first issue of Singularum launching soon, we'll be posting a new call for papers very shortly. Stay tuned for some more exciting announcements.