We at EnterText are aware of the oftentimes-labyrinthine political nature of the academic publishing world. Consequently, we have attempted a remedy by offering an online publication wherein scholars not yet privy to the accolades of academic celebrity have a more accepting forum, one which allows their academic work to be viewed and commented upon by others. We feel strongly that there is among the community of “hidden” scholars a plenitude of great intellectual thought that deserves more attention.

Granted, our standards are not as rigorous as those of a higher-quality journal, but that is precisely our point. We invite readers and contributors alike to approach this publication as a “work in progress”—that is, those submitting should offer thoughtful studies that could benefit from outside commentary, and likewise, those reading should come to these essays with a mind geared towards mutually beneficial conversation. In other words, the articles within EnterText should ideally invite interaction—to echo our subtitle, we consider ourselves a journal of OPEN discourses.

EnterText may only be issued quarterly; we wish our readers to note, however, that it is in no way a static journal. With the accumulation of additional commentary, we wish to present EnterText as an opening within and between texts, which takes advantage of its hypertextual location in ways that traditional journals cannot. We hope EnterText beckons its readers and contributors to enter and re-enter what we anticipate will become an ongoing conversation.

Frank Darwiche & Ben McCorkle, co-editors