We believe that philosophy is not the only discipline equipped to interface with philosophical ideas. That is why our biannual Interdisciplinary Philosophy Journal brings together aspiring and established professionals, from a range of mediums, methodologies and perspectives, to celebrate the collaborative insights of visual art, poetry, short-form fl ash essays, and long-form interviews. In doing so, we intend to promote and preserve what philosophy has to offer to those who are both familiar and less familiar with the field, in an accessible and engaging manner.
Each issue of our Journal therefore comprises a ‘total work of art’: a carefully curated, interdisciplinary investigation of one theme within one design schema, in order to help generate novel insights and achieve a more unified vantage-point.
Issues No.1 and No.2 were funded by the June Cockburn Prize in affiliation with the University of Glasgow.
Issue No.3, exploring the theme of 'Discourse', is due to launch November 2024. This issue is in part funded by the University of Glasgow's Student Enterprise.
Our journal, distributed in book/zine stores across the UK and EU, aims to form something of a public engagement project to bring together and celebrate the scope of philosophical thinking.
Past issues have involved the following philosophers: logician Graham Priest, metaphysicians Roy Sorenson and Ricki Bliss, philosopher/theologist John D. Caputo, as well as philosophy of language and aesthetics Gary Kemp, to name a few.
Our forthcoming issue, on the theme of 'Discourse' involves the recent authors of the book Metaphysical Animals, Racheal Wisemen and Clare Mac Cumhaill on the history of women in analytic philosophy and the Wartime Quartet, as well as Minorities and Philosophy on their history, logician Filippo Casati on the history of the analytic-continental divide, Neri Marsili on whether fiction can lie, authors of the recent paper ChatGPT is Bullshit, and M.G. Piety on revitalising the professionalisation of academic philosophy by reintroducing the old and forgotten essay form of 'flash philosophy' to its practitioners.
Contradictions hold a special place in the sport of philosophical discourse. They are typically regarded as something to avoid or resolve in the defence of an idea; otherwise, they are pursued and revealed in the offense of an idea.
The contradiction antagonises our affinity for consistency, rationality, and linearity. That some thing is and is-not, that some thing and its very negation should co- exist simultaneously and oppose one another is an ungraspable (im)possibility.
To contemplate contradiction requires a tolerance that philosophical discourse does not praise, nor incentivise. That they provoke nausea when expressed through paradox, evoke estrangement under the guise of cognitive dissonance, arouse the poet, rouse the philosopher, and amuse the artist is something to behold.
Such a task of investigation requires an attitude of tolerance for the ambiguity of conflict without resolve. What to do with these strange yet supposedly impossible possibilities is precisely what this issue hopes to achieve. In this first issue of Contralytic, our contributors investigate contradiction – some with ease, others not so much.
Flora Leask Arizpe
Alexander A. Cameron
Tim Tim Cheng
Serafina Cusack
Simon Kerola
Seva Khusid
Lucy Lauder
Lucille Mona Ling
Mahee Mustafa
Marily Papanastasatou
Graham Priest
Anniina Ruonala
Maria Sledmere
Roy Sorensen
Andrew Tamlyn
June 2023
ISSN: 2976-7385
13 x 23 cm
72pp
£9 / 10.50€
