«A European journal of new transnational thought and culture» is the way we characterised the first publication of European Alternatives in 2007. The ambitious subtitle says much about what we were trying to achieve: a regular publication that could be called genuinely «European» (and not national), but which was not euro-centric; a political publication which was also philosophical, artistic, cultural and literary; and which was resolutely «new» and forward-looking. In its quest to live up to its title, the journal took di erent physical forms and appearances, and changed its name from «European Alternatives» to «The Myth of Europa» to «Transeuropa». It was as if in our search for the mythical Europa carried away by Zeus, disguised as a bull, we ourselves took on di erent forms, di erent personas, di erent guises. And in our search we were joined by some of the leading thinkers, artists, writers, poets, political and social theorists of our age. Together with our readers we ranged ove
