Submission of works in the form of scientific articles, essays, reviews, interviews, literary texts, images, or other formats that reflect on the theme, with a submission deadline of December 15, 2024.

  In 2025, it will be 30 years since the publication of Giorgio Agamben's (dis)piece Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Homo Sacer, I), which launched bold archaeological inquiries into Western politics, culminating in a series of nine books. While the political dimension is prominently featured in the Homo Sacer project (1995–2014), other crucial axes include language, theology, and law. This intersection of knowledge allowed the philosopher to uncover various foundational structures that govern our individual and collective practices to this day: bare life and sovereign power, potestas and auctoritas, kingdom and government, human and animal, etc.

  In the book  The Signatures Of All Things: On Method, Agamben attempted to clarify his investigative dynamics in the Homo Sacer project through the concepts of paradigm, signature, and philosophical archaeology. Particularly, the last “instrument” emerges alongside a critique of the Humanities. Thus, the philosophical task is to (re)consider adherence to ontological anchorage—the inevitability of foundations—and the necessity of treating historical perception within chronological order and documented beginnings. To deactivate these epistemological canons, the author invited us—to follow in the footsteps of Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Overbeck, Walter Benjamin, Georges Dumézil, and Michel Foucault—to view the researched reality as a field of an-archic tensions.

Infused with Giorgio Agamben's “profane” spirit towards academic research, this special issue aims to integrate unclassifiable contributions on politics, language, theology, and law that would traditionally be rejected by empirical evaluations and the “correct” methodologies of higher education institutions. It also plans to publish texts that critically engage with the Homo Sacer project—30 years after its launch. In summary, the proposal seeks to gather new and original works influenced by Agamben’s style of doing and writing philosophy, as well as to reassess traditional narratives—and sources—in the mentioned fields.

  Additionally, beyond this thematic issue, the journal (Des)troços accepts ongoing general submissions related to radical thought and the journal's editorial line, as described at:https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/about. Contributions should be submitted via the OJS system, following the submission rules for texts ((https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/about/submissions) by December 15, 2024. The degree requirements do not apply to authors of artistic productions, whose contributions will be evaluated solely by the editorial committee. Texts will be reviewed by the editorial committee and through a double-blind review process. Once approved, texts and images will be published in the journal’s tenth issue, scheduled for release in the first half of 2025.