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  Anisha Anantpurkar, Pasha Tretyakova

  Introduction. Method as Play / Play as Method

  This special issue of The February Journal explores the process of playful knowledge-making. In this Introduction, the issue editors Pasha and Anisha share how that process came together in this volume, across and within contributions. The thematic spotlight is on margins, authority, and the entanglements of fiction and reality. 

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  Isabel Bredenbröker, Katerina Suverina, Andrei Zavadski

  Introduction. The Author Is Dead, Long Live Co-Authors! Collaborative Work in the Humanities

  This issue of The February Journal probes into the potential of the collective rather than the individual. How do we share authority, responsibility, and authorship in academic knowledge creation? Why do aggrandizing ideas and expectations relating to the author as a lonely hero (even if it is increasingly a ‘heroine’) remain part of academic expectations and evaluation criteria? What differences exist between artistic collaboration and co-creation in academia? Can collaboration and co-authorship be seen as a tool of resistance against the neoliberalization of academic systems? Indeed, could collaborative work be seen as a/the future of the humanities?

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  Isabel Bredenbröker

  Introduction. This Is Fine. Not

  This special issue investigates the potential of ‘hope,’ which is understood here as a future-oriented political practice. It combines critical perspectives on ‘hope’ with thinking about ‘problems.’ Contributions, which range from articles over conversations in written and spoken form to artistic text and imagery, add to sharpening the analytical usefulness of these ambiguous categories. 

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  Shura Dogadaeva, Andrei Zavadski

  Editorial. Two Dialogues on Self-Decolonization

  This issue is dedicated to self-decolonizing practices exercised through the prism of autotheory. Employing different genres and stemming from different geographical, epistemological, and other contexts, the volume’s contributions variously analyze ways in which personal experience and positioning, indigenous knowledges, and doing away with formal rigidity as well as utilizing media other than writing (dance, sound, and others) are important for self-decolonization.

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  Shura Dogadaeva, Andrei Zavadski

  Editorial. On Behalf of Silence, Seeking Sanctuary

  Before you are the first and second issues of the new, independent scholarly journal The February Journal. The first is dedicated to silence as a form of micropolitical resistance; the second, to the phenomenon of sanctuary and its role in culture today.