Editorial

It feels almost inevitable that the previous number of CounterText, a special issue on the theme of Omission/s, should be followed up with a number centred on Frame/Framing.What to include when not omitting, and how, in that act, to (re)frame criteriologies, conceptualities, ideas, practices, and more, becomes a theme that carries both consequence and continuity across the journal's pages.There is, in fact, a case that could be made for reading the two issues together, even though they are each their own individual project.Each emerges from separate CounterText roundtables, with the one on Frame/Framing taking place at the Faculty of Letters in the University of Wrocław, 24-25 January 2025 and convened by Paweł Kaczmarski and Marta Koronkiewicz, this number's guest editors (the prior issue is linked to a roundtable that took place at the University of Naples, Parthenope, in June 2024).Beyond the salient observations made in the Guest Editors' Introduction, there are only three points we would add in this Editorial, by way of what now becomes an inevitably self-conscious act of further framing.The first relates to how inevitable -indeed, ineluctable -questions of framing are in all matters relating to literature, art, critique, philosophy, theory, and their (and other) intersections.This is an obvious enough point, but it is one that not only never loses its edge and sharpness but needs ever renewed attention, which would itself be reframed