Inscriptions 1, n1

This inaugural issue of Inscriptions features three previously unpublished translations of original work by Wolfgang Schirmacher, as well as a comprehensive interview with him conducted in Dresden, Germany, in February this year. Also in this issue: Daniel Fraser takes a phenomenological look at what it is that happens when we put our book down and no longer read, while three literary contributions variously bring up spectrality, romance and memory. Inscriptions is an international, interdisciplinary double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes contemporary thinking on art, philosophy and psycho-analysis. Its media are material, psychic and imaginary, its authors are scholars and artists, and its form is open-source internet publishing. We welcome all kinds of approaches that seek to shed light on contemporary and abiding topics in the domains of art, philosophy, and psycho-analysis.