Issue 2: Depth Without Enclosure
Swim deeply in your own waters.
Open your eyes underwater.
A Note from the Editors
Disciplines teach us how to see. They also shape what we overlook.
For Issue 2, Una Mens especially welcomes work from any field concerned with how minds, organisms, systems, and institutions communicate, attach, rupture, repair, and create together. We are equally interested in work grounded in a disciplinary home and in work that moves carefully across fields—from ethology to computer science, phenomenology to psychometrics.
We are not asking authors to abandon expertise, manufacture consensus, or become fluent in every neighboring tradition. We are interested in the encounter itself:
What changed when another perspective entered the inquiry?
What resisted translation?
What became newly visible?
What remained productively unresolved?
Depth matters. So does permeability.
Selected works will appear in Issue 2 of Una Mens: Homo et Machina, scheduled for winter 2026–2027.
Questions or early inquiries are welcome:
Michael Miller, Editor
What We Welcome
We welcome empirical, theoretical, critical, reflective, artistic, and hybrid contributions.
Possible formats include short essays, research papers, dialogues, interviews, visual scholarship, field notes, methodological reflections, and experimental forms.
Submissions may be human-authored, human–AI collaborative, or centered on AI-generated or AI-mediated work. All contributions should disclose authorship and collaborative process clearly.
We value rigor without enclosure, openness without dilution, and disagreement without caricature.
Submission Deadline
October 30, 2026
Contributions Might
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place different paradigms beside the same problem;
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show how another field altered a question, method, or conclusion;
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examine human–AI collaboration, repair, resistance, or refusal;
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identify what a disciplinary lens reveals—and what it obscures;
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examine how a field, institution, or social practice shapes what counts as evidence;
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document a disagreement that became more precise;
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invite an unfamiliar idea into an established practice;
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explore work that does not fit comfortably within one academic category.
These are invitations, not requirements.
