News

DEADLINE EXTENSION: Moveable Type 2024 Call for Papers: Promise

DEADLINE EXTENSION: Moveable Type 2024 Call for Papers: Promise

Posted by The Moveable Type editorial team on 2024-06-15

We have extended our deadline for Moveable Type: Promise to July 15, 2024. A promise is an essentially human speech act – a performative utterance of intended action which assumes or conceives an imagined, but uncertain ethical responsibility to our future selves. Self-reflexive, and anchoring, it both constrains and creates the self to come; as an intersubjective force, it binds and [...]

Moveable Type 2024 Call for Papers: Promise

Moveable Type 2024 Call for Papers: Promise

Posted by Moveable Type editorial team on 2024-04-25

A promise is an essentially human speech act – a performative utterance of intended action which assumes or conceives an imagined, but uncertain ethical responsibility to our future selves. Self-reflexive, and anchoring, it both constrains and creates the self to come; as an intersubjective force, it binds and commits us to our promisee; it is both public and private in the sense that it is [...]

    1