Letter from the Editors

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The editors of Dilettante Army are Sara Clugage, Christine Elliott, and Rebecca Ariel Porte.

Call for Submissions: Tiger Beat Theory

Open call for submissions to Dilettante Army’s Spring 2024 issue, “Tiger Beat Theory”

Palestine Reading List

A list of suggested reading on Palestine from Dilettante Army contributors

Notes on Well, Actually

A letter from the editors.

Notes on Definitive Guide

A letter from the editors.

Call for Submissions: Well, Actually

Open call for submissions to Dilettante Army’s Winter 2023 issue, “Well, Actually.”

Call for Submissions: Definitive Guide

What defines a definitive guide? A definitive guide is correct and complete, demonstrating full comprehension and practical mastery. Guides are texts and people that disseminate knowledge: manuals, how-tos, and tour guides. A guide is only definitive, however, for a moment  in time. Technology and fashion change, leaving experts on things like lace bonnets or JavaScript […]

On Intimacy: An Interview with Chloë Bass

In conversation with Dilettante Army, artist Chloë Bass talks about her work on intimacy and its growing scales of partnership, group, and institution.

Notes on Wifey

A letter from the editors.

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In remembrance of Jeremy Stephen Shedd

In late December of 2022 Dilettante Army co-founder Jeremy Shedd passed away. A graduate of George Mason University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jeremy was the artist behind Glass Crayons.

Call for Submissions: Wifey

Call for Submissions for Dilettante Army’s Spring 2023 issue, “Wifey.”

Notes on Weak Aesthetics

A letter from the editors

Call for Submissions: Weak Aesthetics

Call for Submissions for Dilettante Army’s Winter 2022 issue, “Weak Aesthetics.”

Notes on Two Kinds of People

A letter from the editors.

Call for Submissions: Two Kinds of People

Call for Submissions for Dilettante Army’s Summer 2022 issue, “Two Kinds of People.”

Notes on A Spectre Is Haunting…

A spectre is haunting this issue—the spectre of Marx.

Call for Submissions: A Spectre Is Haunting…

Call for Submissions for Dilettante Army’s Spring 2022 issue, “A Spectre is Haunting…”

Notes on Mission Accomplished

A letter from the editors.

Notes on Hedda Hopper

A letter from the editors (but shh, you didn’t hear it from us)

Call for Submissions: Hedda Hopper

Open call for submissions for Summer 2021

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Notes on Conditions on the Ground

A letter from the editors.

Call for Submissions: Conditions on the Ground

Open submissions for Winter 2021

Notes on The World Aloft

A letter from the editors.

Call for Submissions: The World Aloft

Open submissions for Fall 2020

Notes on OK Boomer

A letter from the editors.

Call for Submissions: OK Boomer

Open submissions for Winter 2020

Notes on Creaks & Cricks

A letter from the editors

Call for Submissions: Creaks & Cricks

Open submissions for Fall 2019

Notes on Clubs

A letter from the editors

Sir Joshua Reynolds, "The Dilettanti Society No. 2 Portrait" (1777-79).
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Call for Submissions: Clubs

Please note: Submissions are now closed A club is an organization that exists somewhere between unbridled enthusiasm and institutional authority. A club is a convivial wonderhouse–not quite a group of strangers, not yet a hallowed hall; it provides solidarity without bureaucracy, learning without academia, association without loyalty oaths. There are all kinds of clubs: book, […]

Notes on Republican Speech

A letter from the editors

Bruno Braquehais, Statue of Napoleon I after the Fall of the Vendôme Column, 1870-71, via Wikimedia Commons
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Call for Submissions: Republican Speech

Submissions are now closed.   “Poetry is republican speech: a speech which is its own law and end unto itself, and in which all the parts are free citizens and have the right to vote.” –Friedrich Schlegel, Critical Fragments no. 65 The theme of Dilettante Army’s Spring 2019 issue is Republican Speech. Speech that builds […]

Notes on Plot

A letter from the editors

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