Editorial Acknowledgement

Abstract

After this issue, Strategies will no longer be published by Carfax/Taylor &Francis. We would like to thank all of the individuals who championed our journal over the last five years in this institutional context, particularly David Green and Joel Phipps. Joel was the stalwart support on the front line of our production process, and we couldn't have created what we did without his help and guidance. From its very beginnings in 1988, Strategies sought to radically rethink the traditional intellectual boundaries that separated and segmented the various disciplines associated with the humanities and social sciences, primarily through the implementation and articulation of “new” theoretical surfaces and discourses. As such, the journal's raison d'être was truly an impossible task. Yet, to say that, of course, is neither to denigrate its role in the interdisciplinary theory discourse nor to deny its (minoritarian) current status: the impossible, as at least one contemporary theorist reminds us (do I need to mention his name?), is that which is presently untimely, and, in that respect, potentially more “relevant” and “practical” than the most far-reaching pragmatism. Prior to Carfax, Strategies was a true cottage industry, produced through many hours of hard work by the Editorial Collective. [Recently, R. L. Rutsky and I put together what we consider to be the most important essays from the pre-Carfax days in Strategies for Theory: From Marx to Madonna (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003)]. Carfax allowed us the freedom and space to truly reach our potential. The important thing is whether the discourse Strategies attempted to initiate will continue to animate one's thinking about theory, culture, and politics. With the increased balkanization associated with academic disciplines and sub-disciplines, can political and social theorists talk with cultural theorists, and can the latter talk with literary theorists and historians? In the process of such a discursive process, can there be a renewed understanding and dialogue concerning important events in culture and politics? In the spirit of the work of Antonio Negri and other radical intellectuals associated with Autonomia: The Struggle Continues!