NEGATIVE JOURNAL​​

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Volume 1, Issue 1 (2026)​

Editor-in-Chief: Julie Reshe

Editorial Committee:

Colin Feltham
Drew M. Dalton

ISSN 3088-7089

Published annually by Negative Press, Ireland
Submission Guidelines: Coming soon. 

Negative Journal accepts essays, philosophical reflections, poetry, visual work, and experimental writing on negativity, philosophical pessimism, negative psychoanalysis, and existential thought.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

​Introduction — Julie Reshe

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Section I: Void, Entropy, and the Non-Human

In Void of Rainforests — Julian Langer
The Theater of Entropy — Vernon Lee Preitauer
Dark Posthumanism — David Roden
Recipe for Disaster: Cooking with Decay — En Mayordomo
Renunciationist Despair vs. Resignationist Hope — Dana C. Sheridan
Rockcentrism: We Were Never Alive — Tuulaikhuu Tsogt-Ochir

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Section II: Suffering, Meaning, and Interpretation

The World as Wail and Repetition — John the Exile
Evental Truth: On the Contingent Appearance of What Cannot Be Known — Mats Gunnars
That’s Why? — Maria Zhir
Hegesias the Hedonist & Ancient Pessimism — Angel Liebson
Against Consolation: Daoism and Negative Psychoanalysis — Martin Donaldson

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Section IV: Love, Loss, and Destitution

Intersubjective Destitution: What Love Endures — Lavonne Chantal
Thoughts on Unconditional Love — Andrei Olariu

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Section V: Lived Negativity: Narrative, Visual, and Poetic Fragments

Modern Mammal — Lisa Preitauer
Down Here in the Dumps — Lisa Preitauer
Drawing Words Around Negativity — Sonja Dolke
Liberty, Equality, Etc. — Molly Thomas
Far Beyond the Date Palms — Zacharia Ibrahim Sadeq
Crusts — Julian Judge
Not You Again — Matthew Hancocks
A Riddle of Purification — Emily Perry
No Where the Worse For — Jacob L. Crider
A Non-Prayer to the All-Mother — Julie Reshe

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