SPECS
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Suppose that a stone with peculiar markings has been found. What do these scratches mean?
So far as the object forces the raising of this question, it is not understood;
while so far as the color and form that we see mean to us a stone, the object is understood.
It is such peculiar combinations of the understood and the nonunderstood that provoke thought.
—John Dewey, How We Think
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Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College. Our aim is to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical practices.
Specs invokes the spirit of John Dewey, for whom thinking begins in flux, in the "peculiar combination of the understood and nonunderstood."
The editors are excited by specialty, an excess of detail, fragments, narratives, meta-narratives, and more, and we seek a range of audiences and contributors, including thinking people everywhere.
We invite submissions of critical and/or creative work for the print and web issue, and welcome cultural criticism, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, and pieces that blur genre boundaries.
We also seek works that force interactions between traditional print and digital media. Please see guidelines for further information.
| Editor: | Vidhu Aggarwal |
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| Managing Editor: | Paul Reich |
| Associate Editors: | Mario D'Amato, Rachel Newcomb |
| Editorial Board: | Jennifer Ailles, Robyn Allers, Elizabeth Binggeli, Denise Cummings, Creston Davis, Connie May Fowler, Jeanne Genis, Dana Hargrove, Emily Russell, Anne Zimmermann, Slavoj Zizek |
| Editorial Assistants: | Michael Ballough, Robert Casey, Scott Chisholm, Luke Kupscznk, Steven Milling, Fay Pappas, Maria Riley, Elizabeth Rogers, Catherine Tocco |