[ecrea] new open access journal Le foucaldien

Launch of the peer-reviewed open access journal Le foucaldien

We are pleased and proud to announce the launch of the peer-reviewed 
open access journal Le foucaldien, published by the Open Library of 
Humanities from September 1, 2017: https://foucaldien.net/. Le 
foucaldien is a spin-off from the foucaultblog, which was founded by a 
group of humanities scholars at the University of Zurich in 2013. The 
motives for launching the journal were to further professionalize the 
publication process, make the contributions digitally sustainable, and 
broaden the scope. As we migrated several research papers from the 
foucaultblog, Le foucaldien was able to start with thirty published 
articles as well as two completed and two ongoing special issues. Hence 
2017 will already be the third volume of the journal.

Le foucaldien publishes interdisciplinary research along the lines of 
the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault (1926–1984) in English, 
German, and French. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy credits 
Foucault with being "the author most frequently cited in the humanities" 
at the beginning of the 21st century, but his concepts are challenged in 
emerging fields such as media studies, digital humanities, 
post-colonialism, new materialism, and science and technology studies. 
Hence the main focus of Le foucaldien lies on updating and 
operationalizing Foucauldian approaches in preferably plain language.

The journal's publisher, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), is a 
not-for-profit charity financed by an international consortium of 
libraries. Due to its non-commercial business model, the OLH does not 
charge any author fees. Le foucaldien's articles are double-blind peer 
reviewed, published under a cc-by open access license, indexed in all 
major databases, and archived long-term in HTML, PDF, and XML. The 
journal is edited by Maurice Erb, Simon Ganahl, and Patrick Kilian, who 
are assisted by Oriane Petteni and supported by an editorial board of 
highly renowned scholars. For details on the submission process, please 
visit Le foucaldien's website: https://foucaldien.net/about/submissions/.

The foucaultblog (http://www.fsw.uzh.ch/foucaultblog/) will of course 
continue to exist, but unlike our established practice, we won't publish 
extensive research papers and special issues any longer. On the one 
hand, the foucaultblog will regularly post announcements around the 
activities of Le foucaldien and the Foucauldian community in general; 
and on the other hand, we will go on to publish shorter essays, 
interventions, and commentaries by external authors. While Le foucaldien 
is positioned as a high-quality journal for substantial research along 
Foucauldian lines, the foucaultblog is an explicitly open platform 
unfolding a digital space for more experimental and subjective forms of 
writing.

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