b2 has decided to expand its engagement with intellectuals and artists from around the world, and from within and outside academia.  We will launch a series of collaborations and exchanges within and outside the US to enable us better to interrogate the world we currently inhabit.  Having relaunched ourselves a few years ago by closing the journal to unsolicited or unapproved submissions, we aim now to become a more active and purposive collective, a center, for progressive thinking and intellectual work.  We will enhance the journal’s international involvements, hoping to dedicate more of our resources to the work of colleagues in different parts of the world.  Politically, our aim is to help understand current configurations of power and open new lines of thought, drawing on historical resources, that meet our new realities.

boundary 2 invites abstracts of articles and proposals for special issues and dossiers of materials that engage analytically with books, authors, and movements from recent history.  Abstracts and proposals should explain how the subject materials contain and offer resources useful now to the critical task of imagining, as Edward Said once said, “alternative futures.”  Proposals should be historical and philological while taking seriously the most advanced critical work of the theory movement and its predecessors.

Please address questions and proposals to boundary2@outlook.com or post replies here.