Gorgòn is an independent, non-profit, nonpartisan journal published online in Italian and set to release its version and first monograph in English in autumn 2011.

The journal has been hosting essays and writings of philosophical, anthropological, historical, critical and interpretative nature. Gorgòn also published literary and artistic materials and promoted intellectual disputes and confrontations on current affairs.

The aim of Gorgòn is a synthesis of high-profile popularization and intellectual rigour, and a dialogue among disciplines, languages and forms of expression. Gorgòn wishes to explore forms of engagement with its readers by refusing to conceive the intellectual discourse, its aesthetic and its accessibility as irreconciliable.

HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights of the material published by Gorgòn in Italian:

• A monograph on Medusa and the popular deviant feminine
• A monograph on Dystopia and ideology in cultural industries
• A debate on the apostasy from Catholic baptism
• A series of articles on the ideologies and issues of Festivities
• An enquire into the modern mythologies of Vampirism

The journal opened to controversial content such as eroticism, deviant lifestyles and the diabolical. It has chosen the Gorgon as its symbol, claiming its uncanny attributes and gaze as a metaphor for 'diagonal' or 'acephalous' knowledge, also inspired by the writings of thinkers such as Roger Caillois and George Bataille.

The international version of Gorgòn will debut in autumn 2011.

In the meanwhile please check out the full Italian version.