Praxis seeks to build a space of questioning, of seeking to understand, to communicate something somewhere beyond the halo of what we might be able, or might be comfortably able, to mediate. to transport. Emergent from the confinements, curfews, quarantines, and travel bans of these past months, the 22 contributors of this collection set out to bring some coherency to the confusions and conflicts in which we find ourselves immersed. find form, functions, trace faults. the unsaid. The shape of unravellings and what could be shored up against them. that which underpins our times. Praxis is edited by Andrew Hodgson, Rosie Snajdr and Chris Clarke. It includes contributions by, in order of Emily Critchley, Imogen Reid, Derek Beaulieu, Andrew Hodgson, Sawako Nakayasu, Outranspo, Bhanu Kapil, Guy Bennett, Spencer Thomas Campbell, Joanna Walsh, Jake Kennedy, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Eley Williams, Kevin McPherson Eckhoff, Isabel Waidner, Shola von Reinhold, Robert Kiely, Chris Clarke, Shane Jesse Christmass, Kimberly Campanello, Rosie Snajdr, and Roy Claire Potter.
Andrew Hodgson (b. Hull, 1988) is author of the novel Reperfusion (WPS&B, 2012), the monograph The Post-War Experimental Novel: British and French Fiction, 1945 – 1975 (Bloomsbury, 2019), and editor of the experimental writing collection Paris (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019). He is translator from the French of Roland Topor’s Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne (Atlas Press, 2018) and from the Danish, Carl Julius Salomonsen’s New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness (New Documents, 2020). He is Professeur of Humanities and Social Sciences in English at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris.