Razpotja

Razpotja (Slovene for Crossroads) is a Slovenian quarterly cultural magazine, part of the Eurozine network of European magazines.^[1]

History and profile

Razpotja was founded in the autumn of 2010 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, by a local association of students and young scholars of humanities and social sciences, with the aim to open a new space for public discussion.^[2] It has four issues per year, providing a platform for informed non-academic debate, mostly written from the perspective of the millennial generation.^[3] Each issue is dedicated to a topic of broad public interest, approached in the form of longreads articulating different standpoints. These articles are usually selected from responses to an open call for papers, thus enabling the participation of emergent authors.^[4]

The magazine includes sections of contemporary debates and cultural phenomena in Europe and North America. It is renowned for its long interviews with public intellectuals, including Garry Kasparov, Timothy Snyder, Jordan Peterson, Michael Freeden, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Stuart Ewen, Padraic Kenney, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Simona Škrabec, or Vinko Globokar.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Since 2014, Razpotja has been collaborating with young Slovenian illustrators, who contribute illustrations and visual essays relating to the main topic of the issue.^[10]

Notable contributors

Several notable authors have contributed to Razpotja, including Julián Casanova Ruiz, Manuel Castells, Božidar Debenjak, Jordi Graupera, David Graeber, Drago Jančar, Dean Komel, Mirt Komel, Janko Kos, Geoff Manaugh, Stephen Mulhall, Sofi Oksanen, Vinko Ošlak, Jože Pirjevec, Boris Podrecca, Peter Pomerantsev, Paul Preston, Alenka Puhar, Mykola Riabchuk, Anton Shekhovtsov, Timothy Snyder, Kirmen Uribe, and more than 200 others.^[11]

Issues and topics

As of spring 2018, 29 issues of the magazines have been published, which include two double issues and a special edition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the town of Nova Gorica (in 2017).

• Politics and Science (Nr. 1, fall of 2010)
• Apathy and Gluttony (Nr. 2, winter of 2010)
• Freedom of Information? (Nr. 3, spring of 2011)
• Left and Right? (Nr. 4, summer of 2011)
• Families (Nr. 5, fall of 2011)
• Consumerism (Nr. 6, winter of 2011)
• Health (Nr. 7, spring of 2012)
• Space (Nr. 8, summer of 2012)
• Oblivion & Economic Crisis (double issue, Nr. 9/10, fall-winter of 2012)
• Europe (Nr. 11, spring of 2013)
• Culture War(s) (Nr. 12, summer of 2013)
• Kafka and Kierkegaard (Nr. 13, fall of 2013)
• Nature (Nr. 14, winter of 2013)
• Slovene Language (Nr. 15, spring of 2014)
• Nietzsche (Nr. 16, summer of 2014)
• Labor/Work (Nr. 17, fall of 2014)
• Sexuality (Nr. 18, winter of 2014)
• Youth (Nr. 19, summer of 2015)
• War and Peace (Nr. 20, summer of 2015)
• Max Fabiani (Nr. 21, fall of 2015)
• Public Interest (Nr. 22, winter of 2015)
• Conspiracy (Nr. 23, spring of 2016)
• Critique (Nr. 24, summer of 2016)
• Hannah Arendt & Sloth and Boredom (double issue, Nr. 25/26, fall-winter of 2016)
• Rhetorics (Nr. 27, spring of 2017)
• Fragile Europe (Nr. 28, summer of 2017)
• Nova Gorica (special issue on the 70th anniversary of the town of Nova Gorica, Nr. 29, fall of 2017)
• Catalan Crisis (Nr. 30, winter of 2017)
• Artificial Intelligence (Nr. 31, spring of 2018)
• Identity Politics (Nr. 32, summer of 2018)

See also

• List of magazines in Slovenia
• Culture of Slovenia

References and sources