What is a critical journal?
探讨了期刊如何通过界定自身范围、目的和价值来构建学术社群，尤其分析了标榜“批判性”的期刊常以对立姿态定义自身，并指出这种二元逻辑的不稳定性。
Most competent editors should be able to make a clear statement about the scope, purposes and \nvalues of their journal. \nThe boundary that they then draw provides a ground for justifications of \nacceptance and rejection, as well as a description of some sort of community, or a group that \nbroadly recognizes itself as such. Sometimes, the community might be primarily articulated as \noppositional, in the sense that it relies on not being something else. Organization, as a ‘critical’ \njournal with a strong statement about its distinctiveness, often seems to fall into this category. \nImplicitly or explicitly, ‘they’ are conservative whilst ‘we’ are radical. One term is defined by its \nother, and so a description of the conservatives is the antonym of the radicals. There is something \ncomforting, even pious, about such a logic, suggesting, perhaps, that ‘they’ are stupid, narrow \nminded or deluded whilst ‘we’ are clear sighted and pure of heart. The logic is reversible of course, \nsince the other side usually claims those virtues too. Such is the way that community and identity \nare often built, but it’s an unstable set-up.