Polifónicxs

Observing the world from a discursive perspective means adopting a critical stance, recognizing its nature as an endless semiosis, an artifact in constant transformation, and positioning ourselves ethically and politically in this contemporary in-world to unravel the mechanisms of power production, reproduction, and circulation.

How can a student journal account for this complexity? First, we move away from proposals that approach discursive objects from a purely thematic perspective and instead seek to reclaim what we consider the greatest potential of this field: the plurality of theoretical, critical, and methodological frameworks offered by our academic program.

Thus, this project focuses on the vast network of theoretical enunciations that have shaped what we now understand as our field of study—a polyphony that defines us as a project and gives us our name.

The voices that fill the pages of this inaugural issue speak of the first steps in the journey of academic research, offering a space to make explicit the writing practices that take shape in the very exercise of essayistic thought, while also engaging with the fertile field of media, popular, and mass cultures.

Academic articles, essays, and reviews intertwine within the polyphonic fabric of this journal—a vast constellation of meanings where language and social reality feed into each other or, as Mikhail Bakhtin would say, “illuminate one another.”