We are currently accepting submissions in the form of academic articles, essays, reviews, interviews, literary texts, images, or other formats that reflect upon the theme, with a deadline of November 30, 2025.

We live in a dark moment, in which the State of Israel not only perpetrates the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, but also commits a spiritual, political, and ontological suicide: a deep and definitive betrayal of the living heritage of Judaism. In this historical and ethical context, it becomes necessary to reopen the field of the judaico through heretical, libertarian, and prophetic lenses. This issue begins with a hypothesis: there exists a Judaism that has not been captured either by rabbinic orthodoxy or by Zionist state reason — a Judaism without essence, without people, without temple — and it is this Judaism that we wish to summon.

An-archic Judaism is, thus, the strategic name of a dispute. It is not about representing Judaism, but about disorganizing its centers of power: deconstructing identity as political theology, challenging sovereignty as a form of messianic organization, and proposing insurgent readings of the tradition — from Kabbalah to a materialist critique of language, from nomadic exegesis to liturgical disobedience.

We invite scholars who, from within or from the margins of the Jewish tradition, think with or against it. We are especially interested in critical reinterpretations of authors such as Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacob Taubes, among others, as well as more experimental approaches that articulate Judaism with anarchist thought, mysticism, critiques of modernity, poetic languages, and non-sovereign messianisms. Controversial thinkers like Oskar Goldberg, whose critique of Zionism is inseparable from an ambiguous racial cosmology, are also welcome, provided they are subjected to rigorous and non-apologetic analysis.

One example of the radical use of Judaism is found in the theory of Quasi-Topological Filtration Processes (PQF) by Yochanan Schimmelpfennig, which reads the Torah not as a revealed text nor as legal code, but as a rhythmic infrastructure of disruption. According to PQF, the Torah does not found a people, does not organize a community, does not regulate ethics, but filters, distorts, and cuts. In this perspective, Hebraism is not religion, language, or ethnicity, but a topological configuration of dissonance. The key concepts of the tradition are not stable signifiers but access operators: nefesh is bodily rhythm, not soul; tikvah is tension without trajectory; korban is fold, not sacrifice; zar is the non-integrable; and shabbat is cut, not rest. The critique of Zionism is thus not grounded merely in political arguments but in a post-foundational ontological hypothesis of filtrational nature: Zionism is a topological catastrophe, a rhythm fixation, an attempt to immobilize intensity into forms of territory, identity, and border. Instead of ayin (the unfounded), Zionism produces ground. Instead of zar, it designates the enemy. Where tikvah should remain tension without vector, Zionism captures it as a political project.

Ultimately, this issue does not seek to affirm an alternative orthodoxy, but to open a field of thought: to intensify heresy as a political gesture, to reactivate tradition as a space of conflict, to make language a site of exile, not of origin. For, as Taubes once intuited, the Jew is, perhaps, the one who insists on not being a people. This call is open to all who wish to intervene in this unstable and dangerous territory.

We also emphasize that, beyond this thematic issue, Des(t)roços: Journal of Radical Thought accepts general submissions on a rolling basis, provided they align with the journal’s commitment to radical thought and its editorial line, as described at: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/about. Submissions must be made through the OJS platform, following the submission guidelines for texts (https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/about/submissions). Academic degree requirements do not apply to image submissions, which will be evaluated exclusively by the editorial board. Text-based submissions will be reviewed by the editorial board and through a double-blind peer review process. Once approved, texts and images will be published in the journal’s twelfth issue, scheduled for release in the first half of 2026.