Welcome to specs

A journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College.

Our aim is to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical practices.

specs invokes the spirit of John Dewey, for whom thinking begins in flux, in the "peculiar combination of the understood and nonunderstood."

The editors are excited by specialty, an excess of detail, fragments, narratives, meta-narratives, and more, and we seek a range of audiences and contributors, including thinking people everywhere.

We invite submissions of critical and/or creative work for the print and web issue, and welcome cultural criticism, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, and pieces that blur genre boundaries.

Inside the 2008 Issue:


Douglas Barbour, Molly Bendall, Jeffrey L. Bohn, Christophe Cassamassima, D.P. Clark, Robert E. Clark, Glenn Deutsch, Denise Duhamel, Eliza Fernbach, Vernon Frazer, Jeanne Genis, Janis Butler Holm, Rosalie Morales Kearns, Amy Letter, Michael David Madonick, Kate Middleton, Sheila Murphy, T.A. Noonan, Melissa Parks, Chad Reynolds, Micah Riecker, Sarah Rosenblatt, Sankar Roy, Craig Saper, Jeff Solomon, Rodrigo Toscano, Lyzette Wanzer, Nina Zammit-Zorn, Slavoj Žižek