About ISOGLOSS Review

ISOGLOSS Review is a multilingual online magazine for cultural and artistic criticism. It invites writers of different nationalities in New York to work as a writing collective and write bilingually, in English and their native languages, on the cultural and artistic events that happen in New York. This is a process of mutual learning and knowledge production.

Isogloss refers to the geographical boundary of the distribution of a specific linguistic feature, which was inspired by the concept of ISOHYET (bounded by the same rainfall) in climatology. It reminds us of the objective existence of borders, even if crossing boundaries and integration have become part of mainstream thought. In New York, an international metropolis that no longer absorbs and engulfs different cultures as a "melting pot," but advocates decentralization and multicultural coexistence, bounded diversity is certainly more attractive than unbounded monopoly. This is why ISOGLOSS Review intends to practice multilingual writing and publishing.

ISOGLOSS Review is based on ISOGLOSS Commune, a community of writers, editors, and readers with ISOGLOSS Collective as the core. It relies on the joint efforts of this community to initiate, grow, and develop sustainably, and incubates paper publishing projects through ISOGLOSS Books, strengthens the community's mutual learning experiment through ISOGLOSS Academy, and solidifies the offline connection of the community through ISOGLOSS Spaces. ISOGLOSS Review welcomes contributions from art critics, film critics, music critics, theater critics and book critics in New York, and welcomes all kinds of funding to support a reasonable remuneration for our writers.

ISOGLOSS Review 是一本多语种的文化艺术评论线上杂志，邀请纽约地区来自不同国族的作者结成写作集体，以母语+英语的双语方式进行写作，对纽约地理范围内每月所发生的文化艺术事件和产品展开观察、体验和评论，并将之视为一个以集体形式进行共同学习(mutual learning)和知识生产(knowledge production)的过程。

ISOGLOSS即等语线或同言线 ，是指某一个特定的语言学特征的分布地理界线，它参照了气候学的等雨线（以相同降雨量为界）的概念。Isogloss提醒我们边界的客观存在，即便跨界、融合已经成为理想话语。在纽约这个不再以熔炉概念吸纳吞没不同文化、反而倡导去中心化和多元文化共生共存的国际大都会，有界的多样化一定比无界的单一化更吸引。这正是Isogloss Review尝试多语种写作和出版的初心。

Isogloss Review建基于以Isogloss Collective为核心的作者、编辑、读者共学社群Isogloss Commune。它依靠这个社群的共力来创刊、成长和持续发展，并通过Isogloss Books来开拓纸质出版事业，通过Isogloss Academy来强化社群的共学实验，通过Isogloss Spaces来凝聚社群的线下联系。在创始阶段，Isogloss Review欢迎定位于纽约地区的艺评、影评、乐评、舞评、书评投稿，也欢迎各种资助，以让我们的作者可获得合理的稿酬。