– Spring List of Contributors

– By Douglas P. Fry & Geneviève Souillac Never in the history of the human species have people everywhere on the planet shared a common fate. Never has there been such an urgent need for concerted global action…

– By Douglas P. Fry & Geneviève Souillac Jamais dans l’histoire de l’espèce humaine les êtres humains aux quatre coins de la planète n’ont partagé un destin commun…

– By Douglas P. Fry & Geneviève Souillac Nunca en la historia de la humanidad compartieron todos los pueblos del planeta un destino común ni se dio la urgente necesidad de una acción global concertada para su superviviencia. En el guión típico de la ciencia ficción, ante la invasión marciana, los habitantes…

– By Mark-Alec Mellor What I’ll be exploring here is the possibility of making a case in defence of humankind, and how (in what terms) that case could be presented. I won’t address the question of whether humankind, as a species, does more harm than good…

– By Rachel Hadas When I came back everything had changed. Or was I what had changed? Surfaces pulsating into depth…

– By Jack Parvid Not quite menacing, nor remotely reassuring, the arcade has slid straight off a de Chirico canvas. Running north amid angled planes of ferric luminosity…

– By Brian Melican With that characteristically knowing, almost haughty expression fixed on their faces, two greylag geese come gliding past…

– Por Jaime Velásquez Para su segundo número, la joven y loable revista The Irenaut propone la antropodicea como tema central. Entre las posibles y quizá muy pocas justificaciones de la humanidad podrían sin duda esgrimirse el arte y las expresiones culturales, materiales e inmateriales…

– By Al Sweeney My children pursue me across the rocks proffering shells or stones, pressing one into my hand…

– Charles Webel and Mark-Alec Mellor On what can we base a robust defence of humanity?…

– By Richard McNeill Douglas & David Fell Aesop, the old rascal, is having an argument with that mangy cur Diogenes. Aesop has recently included him in one of his oh-so-witty fables, something about Diogenes and a bald man and the trading of insults…

– By Gary G. Nelson The question of Anthropodicy is addressed by translating “Good” to behavior that sustains human social form. Treating that as an attribute of the self-organization of any form…

– By Richard McNeill Douglas Who—or what—is God? And what does it matter? What has God (or belief in God) done for us lately? Perhaps we shouldn’t be so harsh…

– By Jerl Surratt One changes for the sake of change. Take Rimbaud in Paris, for instance, after he’d triumphed at being deranged, the ink still wet in his last sentence…

– By Simon Bell Nothing happened for ten years. Furlong opened the door of the caravan as he always did at this time and stepped out. It was still dark, his special hour before the dawn…

– By Nigel S. Thompson A sweet bought in tiny earthenware pots, unglazed, disposable, as for yoghurt, dahi, street corners left with broken shards…

– By Mark Price The Irenaut’s idea that peace can be ‘an expression of human agency inherent in work’, which strives to recover ‘the origin of work and its goal of human amelioration’, made me think of the battered ideal of Irish neutrality…

– By Wei-Ching Chang Peace is “a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice,” according to the Dutch philosopher Spinoza…