Call: Coreopsis Autumn 2025

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Call for Submissions Autumn 2025: Mytho-Anarchism: LeGuin, Taoist Ideals, Mutual-Aid, Kropotkin … and the Road Ahead …

Published September, 2025

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(Art by Denita Benyshek, all rights reserved. Used by permission)

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Call for  Autumn 2025 

Mytho-Anarchism: LeGuin, Taoist Ideals, Mutual-Aid, Kropotkin … and the Road Ahead …

 

I want to dance for the renewal of the world.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

 

How will we move forward from this time we are living in: environmentally, socially, politically, economically, and, as artists, creatively. What is our place in this “uncharted country” we are heading into as a planet? Or, maybe we won’t survive. It’s clear that what is now accepted as “normal” & “how things are done” will not be sustainable for very much longer. The editors ask: what would a world without hierarchical societal systems look like? 

“Like classical Marxism, modern anarchism developed within the specific political, economic and intellectual environment of the nineteenth century. In that context, it made perfect sense for anarchists to focus their critical powers upon the twin sources of oppressive power in the age of the Industrial Revolution: capital and the state. By the late twentieth century, however, this traditional anarchism had become dangerously outdated.” (Lewis Call, 2007)

In this issue we will explore utopia, dystopia, and the alternatives to Lucretius’ “the way things are” in this age of disenchantment. Topics to consider are explorations of estrangement from community, the environment, and one another. Is Kropotkin’s mutual aid a pointer on the map for a more survivable, equitable, kinder future?

 

Philosophical touchpoints:

  • T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey
  • “Teaching Peace in the Feminist Classroom: Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing” by Laurie Fuller The Radical Teacher No. 75, COUNTERING THE ENGLISH-ONLY ASSAULT (Spring 2006), pp. 28-35 (8 pages)Published By: Center for Critical Education, Inc. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20710344
  • Published By: Center for Critical Education, Inc.”Postmodern Anarchism in the Novels of Ursula K. Le Guin” by Lewis Call https://www.ursulakleguin.com/postmodern-anarchism 
  • The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed” by Laurence Davis (Author, Editor), Peter G. Stillman (Editor)
  • “Toward a New Anarchism: Anarcho-Daoism” Jack R (originally published in: Foundations)  https://medium.com/fan-publication/toward-a-new-anarchism-anarcho-daoism-2a040a9a250·
  • “Community Consensus: Design Beyond Participation“ Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Nicola J. Bidwell and Edwin Blake Design Issues Vol. 28, No. 3, Participatory Design (Summer 2012), pp. 89-100 (12 pages) Published By: The MIT Press
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
  • Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin

Please prepare your paper for blind peer review. Artists and scholars are welcomed in the pages of Coreopsis Journal. 

It is recommended that all writers and artists wishing to submit to Coreopsis Journal familiarize themselves with the guidelines before submission. Our submission guidelines are here: http://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/submissions. 

Photography and Illustration https://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/arts-multimedia/

Coreopsis is a highly visual publication and we love to pack each issue with tons of big, bold images. 

Please clearly label whether your paper or essay is submitted for peer review, as an editorial, or as a music or book review. Papers submitted for peer review from scholars must be in APA style and prepared for blind review following these guidelines: http://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/papers-for-peer-review-2/. This journal accepts papers from many disciplines and is welcoming of all faiths and philosophies. We publish 3-5 papers per issue that have been peer-reviewed according to academic standards. Final submissions should be 3,000 to 10,000 words. If you have a finished paper ready for submission, send it directly to [email protected]. 

Please note: Essays from artists do not have to be prepared for review. As Coreopsis Journal is a web-based publication, we can accommodate samples of both audio and video performances.

Visual art submission guidelines: http://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/arts-multimedia/

Coreopsis Journal is published twice yearly by The Society for Ritual Arts. Never for profit. 

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