Foreword

Abstract

he foreword is a tricky genre of writing. Positioned prominently, it demands the reader's immediate attention, and yet, at the same time, it is all too easily dismissed as an inessential distraction on the way to the actual text. The foreword for a serial publication such as aspeers is even more challenging-there are, after all, eleven forewords preceding this one, and the task of continuing the conversation begun in them is not an easy one. As is the case in any series, the dynamics at play here is one of repetition and variation, of doing justice to the core function of the foreword while adding something new and compelling.