Journal information
Print ISSN: 2183-8976 Online ISSN: 2183-9468
1 issue per year
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Sophia Journal is specifically designed to address theoretical work, and it aims to be the publishing medium for a set of exploratory and critical texts on image in the broad sense, i.e. comprehending the worlds of design, photography, film, video, television and new media.
The etymology of the word “sophia” is closely linked to the concepts of sapience and wisdom: (Greek Σοφία, sofía) it is what the “wise person” has, and this word is also derived from philo+sophia (“love of wisdom”). We are interested in making scopio’s Sophia Journal a mentis instrumenta (goddess of wisdom, prudence and deep thought) capable of extending our critical knowledge and questioning the universe of image in an innovative way.
The purpose of scopio’s Sophia Journal is to publish a set of theoretical and critical texts on image in book format; these texts can either be submitted by authors from R&D national and international centers, through a call for papers or by invited authors/editors. The aim is to challenge different artists and creators to submit unpublished original articles, reviews, book reviews and other texts of interest.
To conduct the peer review process, the Editorial Committee, after having reviewed that the submitted document fulfils the style and content rules indicated to authors, will forward the manuscript to two leading experts outside the Editorial Committee, following the double-blind review method. The assessment will judge the contribution to knowledge in the field of study, the originality of the work, the validity of the discourse and the critical judgment as well as the use of bibliography and referencing technique. The decision will be communicated to authors by the editor-in-chief.
Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries was the first cycle of Sophia Journal, having published three major editions that challenged our understanding and spread new light on several Walter Benjamin’s concepts on photography and art, at the same time we were continuously defied to think about established categories namely those of photography as document, archive, critical witness, or even as critique in itself.
Visual Spaces of Change is the focus of the second cycle in the Sophia Journal that will be publishing three major editions that challenge our understanding on how contemporary photography can be explored as a meaningful instrument of research about contemporary processes of urban change and architectural spaces, producing visual synthesis about how architectures, places and spaces are used and lived, rendering visible aspects which are difficult to perceive without the purposeful use of image and photography.
