[Commlist] Transformations Journal: Call for Submissions 2026

This is a call for submissions to the newly relaunched and multimodal 
Transformations Journal, requesting scholarly and artistic work in 
media, culture, and technology.

Call for Submissions: Transformations Journal Volume 24, Issue 1. 
<https://transformationsjournal.org/index.php/transformations/announcement/view/69>

*Liquid Situations*

*Keywords and phrases: *conservation, liquidation, untouchability and 
practice, the destruction of the future and the future of destruction.

“Some people pass things down to posterity by making them untouchable 
and thus conserving them; others pass on situations by making them 
practicable and thus liquidating them.”
- Walter Benjamin, The Destructive Character (1931)

We are currently accepting submissions of scholarly and creative 
work for Volume 24, Issue 1 of Transformations Journal 
<https://transformationsjournal.org/index.php/transformations/index>. In 
this call, we ask: how is the future made? How does the untouchable 
become practicable? What is destroyed in conservation, and what is 
preserved through destruction? Rather than treating creative processes 
as legacies to maintain, how can practice reopen them as 
situations—conditions to be engaged with and reworked?

We seek to publish art and writing that offer critical perspectives on 
media, culture, and technology and that are attentive to how these 
forces shape and are shaped by social relations, collective practices, 
and shared forms of knowledge. We welcome contributions that approach 
media and culture not only as fixed forms of analysis but as shifting 
terrains whose arrangements and entanglements remain open to 
transformation. Submissions may be informed by philosophy, aesthetics, 
and emergent transdisciplinary approaches.

Scholarly articles and creative expositions are refereed through a 
double-blind peer-review process. We are also seeking short reports on 
new work, including books, art, and events. More information for each 
section’s submission guidelines can be found here 
<https://transformationsjournal.org/index.php/transformations/about/submissions>.

*This call will be open until August 31, 2026. No payment from the 
authors is required.*

Contact Eric Coombs Esmail with questions: 
(eric.coombsesmail /at/ colorado.edu) <mailto:(eric.coombsesmail /at/ colorado.edu)>

/Transformations/ is an open-access, independent, peer-reviewed online 
journal for conversations that change how we think, feel, and interact 
with others. We welcome art and writing that offer critical perspectives 
on media, culture, and technology informed by philosophy, aesthetics, 
and emergent transdisciplinarities.

Transformations is independently published by the editors, hosted by 
University of Colorado Libraries <https://libraries.colorado.edu/>, 
indexed by Crossref <https://www.crossref.org/> and the Directory for 
Open Access Journals <https://doaj.org/>, and is a member of the Radical 
Open Access Collective <https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/>.



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