Dear Friends of Limn,

Big News: Limn is back. And we need your help!  

After a brief hiatus, Limn is returning with new projects and a fresh editorial team. Limn 11 - “The Obsolescence Issue” will launch in  November of 2024. Subsequent issues (now in the works) will follow soon thereafter. 

Since “Issue 0: Prototyping Prototyping”  in 2010,  editors Chris Kelty, Andy Lakoff, and Stephen Collier— and all of you— have made Limn a unique space of collaborative inquiry.  Limn 2.0 will continue to approach contemporary problems from oblique and surprising angles. You can expect the same incisive, design-forward style as always. Limn will remain free (Open Access) online and for sale (in beautiful print).  

We are also working to solidify Limn’s place in the publishing landscape. Limn 2.0 will include a fresh website (to launch in Fall ‘24) and mission statement, a new proposal and collaborative peer review process, DOIs for all issues and articles (including past issues), and an open submission portal to pitch potential issues.  

In short, Limn 2.0 will continue to illuminate—or  “limn”—the contemporary anew. But it will be more regular (with bi-annual issues), more accessible, and more legible within both academic and non-academic circles. We will begin accepting pitches for future issues in the coming months. 

Financially, we are pushing Limn to the front-edge of sustainable, scholar-led publication. Our goal is to make Limn a self-sustainable, non-profit.  But to make all of this happen, we need your help! We need to raise $20,000 to support our relaunch and the first year of operation.  That’s why we are reaching out to you— the friends and thinkers who have made Limn what it is—for help.  

Below you will find several options for supporting the relaunch.  We come to you, hat-in-hand, to help Limn limn—now and into the future!

The Limn Editorial Collective (Ashley Carse, Jason Cons, Time Elfenbein, Gökçe Günel, Townsend Middleton, and Jerry Zee).

Support Tiers

Subscriber—$60: This will get you copies of Limn’s next two issues (nos. 11 and 12), in glorious print, mailed to the location of your choice.

Ambassador—$90: Want to help Limn get into libraries and find institutional support? By becoming an ambassador, you will receive copies of the next two issues of Limn (nos. 11 & 12), in glorious print, and get copies of two past issues alongside information and coaching from us on how to approach your institution to secure support for Limn.

Supporter—$100:Copies of Limn’s next two issues (nos. 11 and 12), in glorious print, mailed to the location of your choice, and your name printed, with thanks, on our website and in future issues.

Charter/Institutional Supporter—$500 and above: Got a center or research funds in need of a good cause? Get copies of Limn’s next four issues (nos. 11, 12, 13, & 14), in glorious print, mailed to the location of your choice, along with your name or that of your institution listed on our website and in print as a Limn charter supporter.

Other—$?: If these tiers don’t work for you, we’ll take anything you can offer: change from the couch, pennies you find in the street, high-fives, etc.