FM Nominees for Best of the Web
Fickle Muses nominated three outstanding contributors for the the Best of the Web Anthology:
Sean C. Hayden for “The Cobbler of Buttercup”
Israel Wasserstein for “Stepping into the Woods”
and Kean Kaufmann for “Reverse Persephone”
Call for mythology submissions from Negations
Negations
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Thought
Expanding the Realm of Discourse
Negations explores the nature of civilization and society including the ethical theory that underpins
civilization. The journal is indebted to the writings of thinkers including Herbert Marcuse and Albert
Schweitzer. Their seminal ideas inspire our vision of a conversation that expands the realm of social
discourse. Negations publishes diverse interdisciplinary social criticism to awakens readers to the
irrational character of the established rationality.
Special Call for Works on Mythology
Throughout history, Mythology has been central to civilization and society. It has defined (and been
used to define) individuals, groups, societies and countries and it has been used to motivate people to
acts of great good and justified acts of great evil. While common usage restricts the term Mythology
to something almost synonymous with fairy tales, the Editors of Negations understand that the term
has much more depth and breadth and in its many incarnations continues to be a central actor in the
realm of Social Discourse.
During the 1960’s, it was famously proclaimed that both History and God were dead, Mythology
was publicly irrelevant and pragmatic rational materialism became the order of the day. Beginning in
the 1970’s, that thinking collapsed. While it is arguable that Mythology was ever dead (any more than
History or God), beginning in the 1970’s, much of what has happened in the public realm can not be
adequately explored without the recourse to different types and uses of Mythology.
Our website includes a more general lists of suggested topics. Some possible topics in regards to
Mythology include:
- The implications of “clashes of civilization” and the use of mythology to create national identity and concomitant propaganda
- The appropriation and construction of Mythology to shape discourse
- The use of Mythology in transformative political campaigns (and responses to that use)
- Possible uses of Mythology to expand the realm of discourse
- Analysis of thinkers with respect to the use of the Mythology in the context of civilization and social discourse
- Explorations of Mythology within the evolution of and revolution in communications technologies, particularly the growing range of new media (e.g. blogs, YouTube, Twitter)
- The use of Mythology vis-a-vis potentially catastrophic change (e.g. climate change, economic collapse, geopolitical revolution)
- The reshapping of Mythology in response to the changing range of what is acceptable in social discourse
Submissions
Negations accepts submissions of critical analysis, poetry, essays and other appropriate formats via
our website (www.negationsjournal.org). We welcome you to our conversation and look forward to
reading your work.
Critical thought strives to define the irrational character of the established rationality….and to
define the tendencies which cause this rationality to generate its own transformation.
— Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
Editor
Sari Krosinsky lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her partner and two cats.
She received a B.A. in religious studies and a M.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Her poems have appeared in Poesia, Pebble Lake Review, The American Poetry Journal, Arsenic Lobster, Verse Daily, and others. Fiction Editor
Leslie Fox lived in Central America during her formative years and in New Mexico since the mid-70s – before it was cool.
She writes novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and creative nonfiction. Some of her short fiction has appeared in The Medical Muse, red. a journal of arts, Earth’s Daughters and Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico.Art Editor
Dianne Schlies is a practicing artist and has taught studio art since 1986. She received her M.F.A. from SMU at Dallas, Texas in 1990. She has studied or worked with David Bates, Mel Bochner, Squeak Carnwath, Harmony Hammond, Ed Harris, Joyce Kozloff, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals and Robert Rauschenberg. Schlies presently teaches Drawing and 2-D Design in Albuquerque, New Mexico.