As an independent quarterly journal of radical theory, social critique and emancipatory aesthetics, The Brotherwise Dispatch welcomes the submission of non-solicited essays and book reviews of all sorts, with a priority placed upon critical orientations and creative perspectives that engage the socio-historical crises and structural injustices of our contemporary world.
The Brotherwise Dispatch encourages intellectual rigor so long as it is socially relevant, and does not shy away from dialogue with the elites in the academic establishment or with grassroots thinkers in the streets. However, writers should be aware that we are not an academic publication or an activist zine. As such, we value a provocative working unity of irreverent thought, conceptual density and vigorous prose towards opening new horizons of the radical imagination. The average academic conference paper or activist rally pamphlet manifesto usually gets no play here.
A working discursive familiarity with the thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Simone De Beauvoir, Walter Benjamin, Harold Cruse, Eldridge Cleaver, Assata Shakur, George L. Jackson, Reginald C. Major, Herbert Marcuse, Angela Y. Davis, Theodor Adorno, Jalil A. Muntaqim, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Cedric Robinson, Jean Baudrillard, Russell Maroon Shoatz, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Sylvia Wynter, Anibal Quijano, bell hooks, Lewis R. Gordon, Walter Mignolo, Frank B. Wilderson III, Terry Eagleton, Saidiya Hartman, Slavoj Zizek, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Alain Badiou, Joy James and Fred Moten will be invaluable to potential contributors.
Essays and reviews should be submitted with the purpose to incite thought in discerning readers rather than to commodify information for a general public.
Submitted work is circulated amongst The Brotherwise Dispatch Editorial Cipher for consideration, who then evaluate and make all publishing decisions on a case-by-case basis within 3 months after initial date of submission.
Each essay and review should be guided by intellectual flow and discursive engagement rather than any severe concerns over length; still, essays published in The Brotherwise Dispatch are usually between 3,000 to 9,000 words long, while book reviews are usually around 2,000–4,000 words.
Footnotes are encouraged to clarify references, flesh out tangential ideas, identify source material and convey theoretical influence. Contributors should refrain from using footnotes as an excuse for amassing frivolous and tedious bibliographic information. Pragmatic use of self-citation has its place, however self-referential extrapolations about one’s own previously published work is unacceptable.
The general house-style for The Brotherwise Dispatch footnotes is:
Essays and reviews should be submitted as email attachments in Microsoft Word to brotherwisedispatch@gmail.com