Of course, we are deeply aware that phenomenology has been founded on a large body of primary texts, translations, and critical works that have shaped our understanding of this rich field of scholarship. We therefore understand that sharing careful exegeses and critiques of these foundational texts at appropriate venues helps to deepen our understanding of phenomenology.

However, BTTTT! is not one of these venues. BTTTT! is explicitly not interested in submissions that engage in lengthy textual exegeses, extended parsings of critical analyses of primary texts, or prolonged retellings of what major figures have claimed about a given field of experiential analysis.

By way of contrast, BTTTT! is singularly interested in phenomenology as a radical manner of reflection, as opposed to an area of philosophical scholarship.

It is our conviction that the actual practice of first-person phenomenological reflection is essential not only to the animating spirit of phenomenology, but is also an important way of coming to a fuller understanding of its founding texts in a textually unmediated way.

Accordingly, each submission to BTTTT! should place any scholarly apparatus into “deep background” (e.g., into footnotes and/or appendices) so that both the description and the method whereby it was generated can be discerned in sharp relief. The workshop →