Si le roi savait

Abstract

The artisanal publishing of a journal of the humanities and social sciences is a matter of particular intellectual and professional commitment. While the demands for a certain professionalisation – bureaucratic, normalizing, and disillusioning – of editorial teams and committees are increasing in intensity, the members of Zilsel are joyfully attached to the most elementary norms of the scientific ethos in their publishing work. Craft on form, experimentations on the contents and controlled improvisations, combined with a certain conception of research and its dissemination, thus constitute the desirable horizon for an editorial adventure on a crest line – academic and iconoclastic, demanding and gladly disturbing.

Keywords

• experimentation
• craft
• scientific ethos
• bricolage
• professionalisation