Contributions to the INTER-Scene do not necessarily reflect the views or politics of the editorial or advisory board. All submissions are considered in their unique contributions to stimulate debate, dissensus and collaboration amongst contributing authors and traditions of thought. If you would like to submit a response article to one of our guest submissions, please email [email protected] In 2008, Chris Anderson, co-editor and founder at … Read more
An essay which utilises short fiction and music to reflect on the teleological determinism characteristic of historical Eurocentric theorising which aspired to a global universality. How can we think theory in the ruins of such meta-narratives? Does theory still retain an emancipatory function? Can global thought also mean an excavation of wreckages, or giving voice to revisiting spectres from the past? Can such ghosts meaningfully contest the ‘capitalist realism’ which threatens the subsumption of futurity nd utopian imagining today?
Today, global thought is in crisis. Geopolitical tensions are fraught, international governance has failed to meaningfully prevent grave humanitarian and climate-related crisis, reactionary and populist powers are on the ascendance, and ethnic, racist and gender-based violence has only entrenched itself across many geographies. The decoupling between the rhetoric and “representative” actions of States and their publics has never been more polarised. Theory and praxis are … Read more
In our “About” page, we attempt our own working definition of “Global Thought”: For us, global thought does not denote a specific discipline or tradition of intellectual inquiry. Rather, we understand global thought to be about: This is not a proscriptive list of thought’s characteristics, properties or possibilities; rather, it articulates the conditions of possibility for thought to be global, and in what ways. Understood in this broad way, … Read more
