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Cogent Arts & Humanities aspires to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed academic work from around the world in a scholarly Open Access format supported by the finest Internet software, marketing, and analytics. While the journal as a whole is divided into five thematic sections defined roughly in disciplinary terms, Cogent Arts & Humanities does not center itself upon a specific discipline, tradition, or movement within or among academic disciplines. This makes it a particularly fine place to publish interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, as well as liminally or marginally disciplinary work—in addition, of course, to work that is properly disciplinary.

We collect here, in this our first special issue, a selection of extraordinary essays from authors exhibiting something of the range of interdisciplinary work with which academics and other intellectuals are today engaged. In part, the composition of this collection …