Editorial Policy

We try to take blogging seriously as a new form with a unique formal integrity. Some of us call it "theory blogging". The idea is that a blog post is short and more tightly focused than a traditional essay or article, and also far more informal. The ability to post comments widens the original post and turns it into something dynamic, more like a conversation, yet still, hopefully, focused. A particular theme or topic evolves over multiple posts. We're intrigued.

As "editors" we sometimes solicit "guest blogs" from people whose point of view seems interesting to us. These pieces are one-time or occasional contributions from activists whose perspectives or experience are different than ours. Instead of encouraging polemic or controversy, we view them as cooperative attempts to widen our collective point of view. We hope you'll jump in!

We consider everything we do to be provisional, that is, a work in progress. Sometimes we go back and revise things that have already been published. There's no longer any such thing as "the canonical text". At last, goodbye to the 19th Century!

People actually read this site. 100,000 page views in a busy month. Is that cool, or what?

Want to write something for us? Contact Mark Phillips with your proposal.