Robin Holt, Frank den Hond, Trish Reay
This is a new essay section of the journal, but set firmly within its tradition of opening up provocative topics for scholarly discussion and inquiry.
X is a mobile symbol. It can refer to something very specific like a cross on a map, yet in algebra it refers to the yet to be known, or in common parlance an enigmatic and rare quality of character. For our new section, X marks out the subject matter for an essay; it is both fixing and yet refuses to be fixed.
The idea is to use the section to provoke, to set out interesting but hitherto underexplored lines of inquiry, to open the field to new stimulus, …