Living voices of inert things

Abstract

The writing formats that emerge in academic contexts, such as the one that brings us together here, are commonly assumed to be boxes in which only a certain type of thought can fit: hollow objects, shells that encapsulate other lifeless things. These publications, in general, are based on editorial conventions that are always identical, allowing the insertion of their products -that is how the practices they contain are usually called- in a single container, so that they can be measured by the same standards, regardless of their diverse origins and multiple fields of enunciation. In this issue of post(s) we have considered the need to destabilize this dead structure, to animate it in order to open up a genuine space for the living. We have wondered about the status of things, living and dead alike, and about the way in which names determine them. We have allowed ourselves to imagine other possible worlds where everything that exists has its own anima, and where that anima is recognized.