Contralytic Press

📚3X ISSUES (+ FREE POSTAGE) We’ve got fresh prints of our first two issues alongside our latest release. Pick up a copy now with free postage - see link in bio. Our Journal brings together poets, artists, essayists, and professional philosophers to explore shared themes through multiple forms - from visual art and poetry to short-form “flash philosophy” and long-form interviews. 🔴 Issue No.1 (Contradiction) launched our inquiry into what it means to think with tension and embrace paradox in its many forms - manifesting as cognitive dissonance, formal logic and its historical rejection of contradiction, the ‘double bind’, and the epistemic status of dreams. 🟢 Issue No.2 (Circularity) tackled cycles of thought, fallacy, and regeneration - featuring work exploring nature, economics, intergenerational relationships, the hermeneutic circle, and metaphysical loops. 🟡 Issue No.3 (Discourse) explores the structures and futures of human conversation - with work on diasporic dreaming, colonial archives, ChatGPT, myth, the evolving form of philosophy, and its hidden history of women and refugee thinkers. 🛒 Available in our shop and select stockists. #contralytic #philosophy #interdisciplinaryphilosophy #indiepress #visualart #art #poetry #essay #flashphilosophy #interviews #philosophers #contradiction #circularity #discourse #magazine #zine

As we grow as a press, we’re carving out space to develop new formats and collaborations across both digital and print publishing. Whilst this means that we will now be publishing our Interdisciplinary Philosophy Journal once per year – with Issue 4, exploring the theme of ‘Interface’ launching November 2025 – we hope that in the meantime, you will enjoy our growing lineup of digital series, exploring contemporary philosophy at the intersections of art, culture, and everyday life: 🪑 The Philosopher’s Desk – where we invite contemporary thinkers to share a candid look at their workspaces, and the ideas that animate them.
 📚 Contralytic Library – where we show you what’s on our minds and shelves, reviewing and sharing our many influences. 🗣 Conversations with Contralytic – longform interviews with philosophers reflecting on the past, present, and future of philosophy. 🎨 Art That Argues Back – where we examine and write about art that, like good philosophical argument, challenges our fundamental precepts. (Coming soon).
 📕Philosophy Journal Highlights – snapshots from our flagship in-print Interdisciplinary Philosophy Journal, which brings together poets, artists, essayists, and professional philosophers to explore shared themes through multiple forms. This includes: visual art, poetry, short-form “flash philosophy”, and long-form interviews. (Issues can be picked up from our online shop or one of our many international bookstore stockists!). Make sure to sign up to our newsletter (link in bio) to get new releases direct to your inbox, and be the first to hear what’s coming next. As always, thanks for your support! — The Contralytic Team • • • #Contralytic #PhilosophyJournal #ExperimentalPhilosophy #IndependentPublishing #ContemporaryPhilosophy #IndiePress #Zine #Art

We’re thrilled to announce that our Interdisciplinary Philosophy Journal is now by a long shot more well-travelled than any of us – reaching more shelves across the UK, Europe, and the USA thanks to our brilliant distributors, Public Knowledge Books (@public_knowledge_books ).
 A huge thank you to the team at PKB and all our incredible stockists for helping make Contralytic accessible to an ever-growing international readership. Your support means the world. 📍Find us at these stockists: AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱 Athenaeum Boekhandel (@athenaeumnieuwscentrum ) 
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🎄Winter Sale Now! Discover philosophy, art and poetry for the winter season and enjoy 25% off all issues of our Interdisciplinary Philosophy Journal - including our dual and triple bundles - with promo code ‘WINTER25’. The offer runs until 23:59 on Christmas Day. Stock up, gift a copy, or finally grab the issue you missed. Shop via the link in our bio. #winterSale #philosophypress indiepress

📒Journal Highlight – Issue No.3 (Discourse)

This is an excerpt of a poem titled ‘Texas’ by Will Harris, from Issue No.3 of our interdisciplinary philosophy journal, exploring the theme of discourse. 

To see more from Will, amongst other poets, visual artists and philosophers in this issue, pick up a copy from online store (in bio), or from one of our stockists. You can order from our store with winter sale discount of 25% by applying code ‘WINTER25’ at the checkout!

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🎙️Conversations with Contralytic No.5 — a digital interview series on the past, present and future of philosophy 
In this episode, we speak with Dr Grace Lockrobin on: ⦿ The purpose of philosophical education in an era of overlapping global crises ⦿ The role and reach of public philosophy ⦿ The many ways people outside academia already engage, or could engage, with the discipline ⦿ What liberal democracies stand to gain from cultivating philosophical communities of inquiry ⦿ Dr Lockrobin’s research on the relationship between narrative, ethics, and education ⦿ How philosophy came to be sidelined in the British curriculum 
⦿ What a future educational landscape enriched by philosophy might look like 
🗣️ Dr Grace Lockrobin (PhD, FHEA) is Co-Director of THOUGHTFUL (previously SAPERE) — a UK charity that improves learning and lives through philosophical enquiry. She is also a practising philosophy teacher, trainer, facilitator and researcher. Active in education and academia, she is a Council Member of The Royal Institute of Philosophy. an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Philosophy in Schools, a Board Member of Sophia, and the Founder of Thinking Space. Grace has recently been awarded a PhD in Philosophy of Education by the Institute of Education, University College London. Her work is in education, ethics and aesthetics. 
 🗞️Be sure to sign up to our newsletter from our website (see link in bio) to receive each release of this series straight into your inbox, as well as stay updated on more exciting future announcements. • • • #Philosophy #Education #Interview

📚 Contralytic Library – our ongoing glimpse into the books shaping our shelves and our thinking.

This month, we’ve been drawn to two very different critiques, each illuminating a distinct pressure point of contemporary life. Bernard Williams’ Truth and Truthfulness challenges the cynics of truth and its value, defending accuracy and sincerity as virtues we cannot afford to lose. In contrast, Ashish Ghadiali Singh’s In Defence of Leisure brings a decolonial and literary critique to psychoanalysis, making a powerful case for leisure as a political, creative, and deeply human necessity.


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📗 Journal Highlight – Issue No.2 (Circularity)

Why did an academic circle in 20th century Vienna reject their contemporaries metaphysical philosophy? Find out in Issue No.2’s flash philosophy, written by Prof. Gary Kemp. 
This piece provides a snapshot of a critical period in the history of 20th century western philosophy, from the positioning of Vienna Circle member Rudolph Carnap’s direct opposition to the (in)famous metaphysical declarations of Martin Heidegger. To read more on this, alongside a range of other topics and interdisciplinary mediums exploring the theme of ‘Circularity’, pick-up a copy of Issue No.2 from one of our stockists or in our online shop (see bio)! Don’t forget to apply discount code ‘WINTER25’ for 25% off – redeemable up until 25th December 23:59. • • •
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❄️ Winter Sale Begins!

Discover philosophy, art and poetry for the winter season and enjoy 25% off all issues of our Interdisciplinary Philosophy Journal – including our dual and triple bundles – with promo code ‘WINTER25’.
 The offer starts today and runs until 23:59 on Christmas Day. Stock up, gift a copy, or finally grab the issue you missed. Shop via the link in our bio.

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🎙️Conversations with Contralytic No.1 Highlight — a digital interview series on the past, present and future of philosophy Our conversation covers a range of topics, such as: ⦿ The so-called ‘Personal Turn’ philosophers have taken today and its challenge towards the posturing of objective enquiry ⦿ His experience studying under the renowned neo-pragmatist, Richard Rorty ⦿ The suicidal tendencies of philosophy in the 20th-Century and it’s parallels with the history of art ⦿ Questions of identity and Feminist epistemology ⦿ Moving beyond the Analytic/Continental divide and into an future ‘Post-Analytic’ era ⦿ The future of our institutions during the changing political tides 
🗣️ Crispin is an American academic, philosopher, and journalist who was a faculty member of the philosophy department at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania until he retired in 2023. He is the author of multiple books, most recently Beauty: A Quick Immersion (Tibidabo Publishing, 2022) and Entanglements: A System of Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2017). 
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📕Journal Highlight – Issue No.1 (Contradictions)
 ‘Not Acts As In Acts But’ by Tim Tim Cheng (@mymothercalls ) considers the contradictions between performance and truth – intentions and action.
 Find more poetry, visual art and philosophy on contradiction in Issue No.1, visit our shop (via product tag or link in bio) and stockists worldwide.
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Thank you to everyone who stopped by at the Edinburgh Zine Fair (@edinburghzinefair ) over the weekend, and to @typewronger for bringing together such a diverse community of zine readers and makers! • • • #contralytic #contralyticpress #edinburghzinefair #indiepress #smallpress #philosophy #interdisciplinaryphilosophy #zineculture #edinburgh