EXCERPT A new publication is obliged to justify its demands on the attention of a reader already besieged by countless specialist journals. This justification cannot appeal to the orgiastic logic of the filling of market ‘niches’. With Collapse we have set out to achieve quite the opposite, aiming rather at a breadth and an openness found wanting. That academic philosophy courts overspecialisation and a certain depression of the energy of thought is news to no one. Whilst not wishing to denigrate the necessary and exacting work of scholarship, we wished to create a publication which communicated the passion for thought, and the excitement of thinking.…