[PHILOS-L] CFP for a Special Issue of Angelaki: Khôra

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Call for papers for a Special Issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

Khôra
Editors: Nicholas Birns and Marina Christodoulou

This special issue (33.5) invites contributions that revisit the concept of khôra, introduced in Plato’s Timaeus as a “third kind” beyond being and becoming, a matrix, a receptacle, and reinterpreted in contemporary philosophy, most notably by Derrida. Situated between presence and absence, intelligibility and materiality, khôra resists stable categorization while remaining indispensable for thinking space, inscription, and receptivity. We seek papers that engage khôra across disciplines, exploring its implications for spatial theory, media, politics, ecology, and aesthetics, as well as its limits and possible reconfigurations today.

Contributors are encouraged to explore the following subjects, as already apparent in the presentation/argumentaire of the edited volume, however these are not exclusive: 

  • Platonic interpretations, as well as pre-platonic and later antique  (i.e. Neoplatonist , e.g. Plotinus) references and interpretations
  • Potential later uses and mentions of the term, e.g. in Byzantine, Roman, and Medieval texts
  • Modern and Contemporary uses, mentions, studies, interpretations of the term: e.g. Spinoza, Leibniz, Schelling’s commentary on the Timaeus, Bergson, Heidegger, Phenomenology (Husserl, Richir, etc.), Whitehead, Derrida, Deleuze, Feminism (Grosz, Irigaray, Kristeva, etc.),  John Sallis, Aesthetics (e.g. in Arts, Performance and Architecture).
  • Accounts from Charles Taylor,  John Caputo, Richard Kearney, other post-secular thinkers. 
  • Non-western equivalent terms/concepts/ideas, or usages and interpretations, in Hindu or Buddhist philosophy or elsewhere, as for example in Nishida Kitarō, or in Indigenous cultures.
  • Khôra and digital space / AI
  • Khôra in architecture or urban studies
  • Khôra and/in feminist philosophy, especially as applied to the limits and fault lines of gender. 
  • Khôra and decolonial spatial theory
  • Khôra in literature or visual art, especially accounts of place or materiality in literature. 
  • Khôra and affect / embodiment
  • Khôra and environmental thought, especially in terms of the idea of the ground. 
  • Animal Studies
  • Object oriented ontology
  • Khôra and psychology/subjectivity 

Chapters shall be 5000-8500 (max) words, inclusive of bibliography and notes.

The Special Issue will also be published as a monograph-type book by Routledge.

Please submit a title and an abstract/brief-outline proposals of between 300-800 words. Additionally, please include an up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV). The deadline for submissions is August 01, 2026. Please send your materials to Nicholas Birns (nb2...@nyu.edu)  and Marina Christodoulou (marina.n.christodoulou@gmail.com), who can also address any inquiries you may have. 

The proposed timeline is below:

August, 01, 2026 – Abstracts/brief outlines due from CFP
September 15, 2026 – Notification of Preliminary Acceptance of Proposals or Rejection
September 15, 2027 – Completed Manuscripts Due, Editorial Reviews Start 




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Dr. Marina Christodoulou

Lecturer in Philosophy

Module Coordinator of Courses in Philosophy in the Constructor-Track

School of Business, Social & Decision Sciences

Constructor (Jacobs) University, Bremen

https://constructor.university/faculty-member/marina-christodoulou


Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt

https://www.aau.at/team/christodoulou-marina/


Nietzsche-Fellow at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (2025)


Webpages:

https://edinburgh.academia.edu/MChristodoulou

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marina_Christodoulou4 

https://philpeople.org/profiles/marina-christodoulou


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