Fox Valley Review
A regional arts, culture, and ideas magazine rooted in the Fox Valley — capturing local stories with global resonance.
Media & Imprints
Where Strategy Meets Story
OrganoSys Media Group is not only a consulting firm; it is an ecosystem of publications, journals, and conversations. Together, these imprints explore how education, work, culture, and public life shape one another.
From regional storytelling in the Fox Valley to scholarly and public-facing writing across disciplines, our media work creates spaces where ideas and communities meet — and where complex questions stay connected to real lives.
Publishing
Journals
Podcasts
Local & Global
Overview
The OrganoSys Media Ecosystem
Each imprint has its own voice and audience, but they share a common thread: careful thinking, grounded storytelling, and an ethic of responsibility to the communities they touch.
OrganoSys Press
A publishing imprint for books, reports, and digital projects at the intersection of ethics, education, policy, and practice.
And/Or Journal
A curated journal for essays, inquiries, and experiments in curriculum, culture, and critical public thought.
The Philosopher Unplugged
A podcast where high-level ideas meet everyday questions — unplugged, honest, and grounded in lived experience.
Magazine
Fox Valley Review
Fox Valley Review is a print and digital magazine devoted to the arts, culture, and everyday life of the Fox River Valley and surrounding region. It treats the valley as both a local home and a lens on wider questions of community, belonging, and change.
What It Covers
- Profiles of local artists, makers, and community builders.
- Essays and reflections on place, memory, and everyday beauty.
- Photography and visual storytelling from across the valley.
- Curated events, seasonal guides, and cultural spotlights.
Fox Valley Review is a space where readers can see themselves and their neighbors in print — and where local stories are treated with the care and craft they deserve.
Formats & Future Plans
- Quarterly print issues with companion digital features.
- Online archives organized by town, theme, and season.
- Live events, release parties, and community conversations.
- Partnerships with local organizations, venues, and sponsors.
As the magazine grows, this page can link directly to issue archives, media kits, and sponsorship opportunities.
Publishing Imprint
OrganoSys Press
OrganoSys Press publishes works that sit at the crossroads of ethics, education, organizational life, and public policy — from modular textbooks to essays, reports, and experimental forms.
Areas of Focus
- Ethics, philosophy, and social thought for contemporary readers.
- Curriculum theory, educational practice, and policy analysis.
- Organizational life, leadership, and systems thinking.
- Hybrid works that blend scholarship, narrative, and art.
The press is designed to honor rigorous thinking while staying readable and relevant to practitioners, educators, and engaged citizens.
Formats & Projects
- Print and digital books, including modular and multi-modal texts.
- Short-form monographs and field reports for specific audiences.
- Co-published works aligned with partner organizations or initiatives.
- Future: audio editions, enhanced e-books, and companion courses.
Over time, you can surface specific titles here, with links to purchase pages, sample chapters, and teaching resources.
Journal
And/Or Journal
And/Or Journal is a space for essays, inquiries, and experiments that refuse either/or thinking. It invites work that explores curriculum, culture, race, gender, spirituality, media, and public life in ways that do not fit neatly into one box.
Editorial Orientation
- Critical, reflective, and grounded in lived experience.
- Open to hybrid forms: essays, dialogues, visual work, and more.
- Engaged with persistent questions of justice, meaning, and power.
- Attentive to both local particularities and global dynamics.
And/Or Journal is designed as a bridge between academic and public conversations — rigorous, but not gated behind jargon or paywalls.
Potential Features
- Themed issues around pressing questions or metaphors.
- Invited essays from educators, artists, organizers, and scholars.
- Series that follow a question across multiple contributions.
- Companion media: audio readings, roundtables, and live events.
This area can eventually link to a dedicated journal site or a curated archive hosted within OrganoSys Media Group.
Podcast
The Philosopher Unplugged
The Philosopher Unplugged is a podcast where high-level ideas in ethics, politics, education, and culture get pulled off the bookshelf and into everyday conversation — with humor, rigor, and honesty.
What the Show Explores
- Education: student success, curriculum, and the future of learning.
- Public life: democracy, policy, and civic imagination.
- Culture: masculinity, media, identity, and community.
- Personal: career crossroads, grief, joy, and everyday ethics.
Episodes are designed to be accessible to listeners who may never have taken a philosophy class, but who think deeply about the world they live in.
Formats & Seasons
- Thematic seasons focusing on a cluster of related questions.
- Solo reflections, interviews, and roundtable conversations.
- Companion notes that connect episodes to readings and resources.
- Future: live recordings and community listening events.
When you are ready, this section can link directly to podcast platforms, episode pages, transcripts, and series guides.
Integration
Why Media Matters to Our Consulting Work
These imprints are not side projects; they are part of how OrganoSys learns, experiments, and stays accountable. They keep us grounded in real stories and communities while we work on strategies and systems.
Laboratory for Ideas
Media projects allow us to test concepts, frameworks, and questions in public, refining them before and alongside consulting engagements.
Bridge Between Worlds
Publishing and podcasting help us translate between academia, organizations, and everyday life — so insights do not stay siloed.
Accountability to Communities
Local storytelling and public-facing work remind us that metrics and strategies always have human faces behind them.
Interested in collaborating on a media or publishing project?
OrganoSys partners with organizations, authors, and community groups on magazines, books, reports, and podcast series. Share your idea and we can explore what it might look like to build it together.