About The Parallaxer

A parallax is the apparent shift in an object when you view it from a different position. Nothing about the object changes. What changes is where you are standing and that turns out to be enough to tell you something you could not otherwise measure.

This publication takes that seriously as a method. A housing shortage is a supply problem, a question about who holds power in local government and an argument about what a home is for. A central bank decision is a technical judgement, a democratic question about who decides and a claim about whose losses count. Reading any of these through one discipline gives a clean answer to the wrong question.

How the colours work

Every article carries one, two or all three lenses and its colour is the mix. Philosophy is yellow, politics is red, economics is blue. Where two lenses meet, their inks combine. Where all three meet, the result is near black. The Pixels arranges every published piece into the region it belongs to, so you can see at a glance where the publication has been paying attention and where it has not.

• PHILOSOPHYPhilosophy
• POLITICSPolitics
• ECONOMICSEconomics
• PHIL·POLPhilosophy and Politics
• PHIL·ECONPhilosophy and Economics
• POL·ECONPolitics and Economics
• PPEPhilosophy, Politics and Economics

The masthead

The Parallaxer is edited by a small group. There are seven beats, one for each region of the map: the three single lenses, the three pairs and the centre where all three meet. Each beat has a senior editor, appointed by the publication, and may have junior editors writing alongside them.

Guest contributors are not on the masthead but keep a profile and a byline. A first and second piece run as guest articles. After a second, a contributor may apply for a junior editorship. Senior editorships are not applied for.