[Discussion] [Fwd: CFP: Culture Machine: The E-issue (10/1/02; journal issue)]

[Gonul Pultar]

> CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> CULTURE MACHINE 5
>  February, 2003
> 
> http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk
> 
> The e-issue
> 
> Editor for this issue: Gary Hall
> 
> In Archive Fever, in what in just a few years has already become one of
> the most frequently referred to passages in his oeuvre, Jacques Derrida
> suggests that electronic media technologies are not only transforming
> the process of analysing, communicating and conserving knowledge, they
> are transforming the very nature of knowledge. It is some of the effects
> of media communications technologies on knowledge, both its form and
> content, that we would like to explore in this ‘e-issue’ of Culture
> Machine.
> 
> The example Derrida gives in Archive Fever concerns psychoanalysis
> (although he also refers to literature, philosophy and love letters in a
> related passage in The Post Card), but contributions might examine the
> effects of different electronic technologies on a variety of fields -
> cultural studies, gender studies, politics, history, science, law,
> medicine, biology, anthropology, art history - as well as on ideas of
> the book, the letter, the university, the library, the art gallery and
> the museum, as well as, of course, the archive.
> 
> Do telephones, the cinema, radios, portable tape recorders, CDs, VCRs,
> DVDs, cell phones, computers, printers, faxes, televisions,
> teleconferences, communications satellites, the Internet, the World Wide
> Web, hyper-text, e-mail, the e-book, Bluetooth et al produce
> possibilities for prosthetically ‘improving’ the performance of our
> current disciplinary fields and forms of knowledge (in terms of the
> amount of material that can be stored, the speed of production, the ease
> of information retrieval, the range of distribution, reductions in
> reproduction, distribution and staffing of posts)? Or does our present
> ‘discourse network’, to borrow Friedrich Kittler’s term, contain the
> potential to bring such fields and forms to an end? What happens to
> teaching, writing and research when the academic gift economy -
> recognised through peer-to-peer computing (P2P), open source, freeware
> or shareware - is taken as a model for the communication, publication
> and exchange of ideas? Or when, as has already been the case with some
> contributions to Culture Machine
> 
> http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j001/Test/index.htm
> http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j002/Articles/art_kolb/Introduction_143.html
> 
> http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j002/Articles/art_harn.htm
> 
> digital publications stop trying to merely transfer print aesthetics
> into an electronic form and start producing texts which are 'born
> digital': texts which are not restricted to the book or essay format but
> which, as Lev Manovitch maintains, take the database as the 'new
> symbolic form of [the] computer age', and consequently 'do not tell
> stories… don't have beginning or end; in fact… don't have any
> development, thematically, formally or otherwise which would organise
> their elements into a sequence'; or are produced as 'codework', in which
> the technical and cultural practices of electronic writing are combined.
> 
> Contributions that take advantage of and explore the effects of
> electronic media technologies in their form, as well as content, are of
> course welcomed. So, too, are those which experiment with the way in
> which electronic media technologies may place the very legitimacy of
> certain forms of knowledge in question.
> 
> Deadline for submissions: October 2002.
> 
> Contact:
> Gary Hall
> School of Arts
> Middlesex University
> White Hart Lane
> London N17 8HR
> UK
> E-mail: g.hall@mdx.ac.uk
> gary.hall@connectfree.co.uk
> 
> Contributing to Culture Machine
> 
> Culture Machine publishes new work from both established figures and
> up-and-coming writers. It is interactive, fully refereed, and has an
> International Advisory Board which includes Robert Bernasconi, Lawrence
> Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf, Alphonso Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton,
> Avital Ronell and Nicholas Royle. Among the distinguished contributors
> to the first four editions of Culture Machine are Alain Badiou, Geoffrey
> Bennington, Timothy Clark, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Diane Elam,
> Johan Fornäs, Henry A. Giroux, Su Golding, Lawrence Grossberg, Stevan
> Harnad, David Kolb, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Michael Naas, Mark
> Poster, Tadeusz Slawek, Kenneth Surin, Hal Varian and Samuel Weber.
> 
> Culture Machine welcomes material from Britain, Australia and the United
> States, and is particularly interested in acquiring contributions from
> those working outside the usual Anglo/Australian/American nexus that
> currently seems to dominate so much of Cultural Studies. Appropriate
> unsolicited articles of any length from academics, post-graduates and
> non-academics will all be accepted for publication, as will
> contributions which respond to or seek to engage with work previously
> published in Culture Machine. So-called ‘inter-active’ texts are also
> welcomed, as are any forms of contribution that take advantage of and
> explore the uses and limitations of digital technology.
> 
> Culture Machine publishes one edition of the journal each year, with
> Culture Machine 5 appearing at the beginning of 2003. All contributions
> to the journal are refereed anonymously. Authors should follow the
> Culture Machine Style Manual in preparing their articles
> (http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk).
> 
> Anyone who has material they would like to submit to the journal for
> publication is invited to contact the editors:
> 
> Dave Boothroyd
> Department of Social Policy and Sociology
> University of Kent
> Canterbury
> UK
> e-mail: d.boothroyd@ukc.ac.uk
> 
> Gary Hall
> School of Arts
> Middlesex University
> White Hart lane
> London N17 8HR
> UK
> e-mail: g.hall@mdx.ac.uk
> 
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