[Issues]

Techniques Journal is a peer-refereed publication that mixes genre, methods, and media to examine techniques for intervening in the many crises our planet faces today. The journal is at once a design experiment, a scholarly publication, and a curatorial platform that aims to trouble extant divisions between academic and nonacademic publishing. Techniques Journal publishes themed issues that invite guest respondents and the public to join the conversation about the meaning, use, and variety of techniques for cultivating just and ethical worlds.

[Animating]

The inaugural issue explores a wide range of techniques for animating worlds today. Drawing on media philosophy, performance and video art, animation, psychoanalysis, ecotheory, anthropology, and more, the pieces experiment with techniques for pluralizing the fissures and interstices in modern fortresses of thought and practice.
[Bordering]

The second issue inquires into techniques used for bordering in worlds fraught with asymmetries. The issue brings together video art, ethnography, design fiction, philosophy, border studies, activism, post-development theory, and experimental curation to engage what it means to design techniques on the borders—of institutions, economies, citizenship, the nation state and sovereignty, colonial modernity, and the human and nonhuman.
[Cannibalizing]

This issue examines techniques for cannibalizing, broadly conceived. We draw on work ranging from evolutionary and developmental biology to decolonial anthropology, design and art research, media philosophy, and more to investigate techniques of cannibalizing expressed in capitalist modernity, biology, and cultural, artistic, and knowledge production. Launching in 2023.