The New Digital Era

The editor is Salvo Vaccaro (University of Palermo)

The New Digital Era

Soft Power: Euro-American Journal of Historical and Theoretical Studies of Politics is an inter-disciplinary academic journal published since 2014. It is supported by the University of Salerno and the Universidad Católica de Colombia.

The aim of the journal is to be a forum of discussion for researches and scholars interested in the changes of contemporary political and legal orders. Through an approach that integrates philosophy, legal and political theory and history, it tries to investigate the diffused and fragmentary power dispositifs emerging forms social practices that bring to light new aspects of political and legal rationality. In particular, research interests focus on transformations of law and politics in contemporary neoliberalism.

The target of this issue is, on the one side, to focus the conceptual strategies that are supporting the practices of computing human agency, among them the algorithm, the profiling, the targeting, the machine learning, the digital subjectivation, the processes of surveillance and control, the artificial intelligence, the machinery, and so on. From the other side, to understand the effects of digital practices on society and on the dynamics of politics/policy/polity, opening to an automatic society whose configuration is nowadays instable and uncertain, meanwhile a critique is still looking for a good perspective.

Soft Power invites submissions of articles of 6,000 to 6,500 words, including footnotes, on any aspect related to social and political effects of The New Digital Era.

Proposals with Name, tentative Title, little Abstract (max 30 lines), Bibliography and Keywords should be submitted by February 20, 2024, but this does not commit any real publication. Acceptance of the proposals shall be communicated by March 20, 2024. Articles for issue number 22 should be fully submitted by July 20, 2024.

Philosophical, theoretical, historical and interdisciplinary articles are welcome. All articles are peer-reviewed using a double-blind peer-review process. Articles must be written in English or in Spanish. Abstracts and keywords must be in English as well as in Spanish in order to facilitate the inclusion in international databases and indexing services.

For more information, for the author’s style guide, and for submission of articles, please write to: info@softpowerjournal.com