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andrewmurphie

andrewmurphie has written 13 posts for The Fibreculture Journal
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Unnatural Ecologies Issue

By ⋅ April 21, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The Fibreculture Journal‘s Unnatural Ecologies issue, guest edited by Michael Goddard and Jussi Parikka, is now online. Media ecology has always resonated with discussions of digital and networked media. Perhaps this is because the discipline of media ecology has always been so open to transdisciplinary work. The pioneers of media ecology set off very early on the road to transdiscplinary critique that is a key focus for the Fibreculture Journal. Indeed, media ecological critique is often critique in the best sense: the exploration of the limits, not just the errors of thinking, the immersion of thought in real events and practices, and the creation of new ideas appropriate to the present and future of media. All in all, from Innis and McLuhan on, media ecology has provided a generative engine within media thinking and practice. Indeed it has been exemplary thinking as practice. Yet the leading scholars writing for the…

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Some Happy Changes

By ⋅ May 10, 2010 ⋅ One comment

It is with great happiness that we launch the new site for the Fibreculture Journal. Many thanks to Mat Wall-Smith, our Journal Manager, for setting up this far more flexible platform. It’s been an enormous amount of work, but it’s been worth it. With this platform, we hope to foster a more complex and rewarding engagement between the journal, our readers and our authors. We also hope to challenge the nature of all three. It is perhaps fitting then in many ways that our first issue on this new platform is the Counterplay issue, edited by Michael Dieter and Tom Apperley. This issue takes up ‘unruly innovation’ as ‘an intrinsic dimension of gaming’. It analyses ‘the contingent and transformative dynamics unleashed by games’. We hope you’ll join with us at the Fibreculture Journal—read, write, and think with us. We hope you’ll join with us not only via our extensive collection…

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Issue 01 – The Politics of Networks

By ⋅ November 1, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

There are many who say that publishing today – especially the publishing of new ideas – is in trouble. In many ways, this is hard to argue with, especially as regards commercial academic publishing. At the same time it is, in fact, a very exciting time for publishing. Just as a revolution in music publishing and online distribution has changed the nature of music, new technologies have meant new modes of delivery and new forms of distribution are currently changing the way we engage with ideas. Perhaps most exciting is that it is suddenly much easier for new voices to find publication outside of the established academic presses, and to find new communities that are prepared to give these voices a context. The Fibreculture Journal, the journal of the Fibreculture network of critical Internet research and culture in Australasia, embraces these changes. We are celebrating the launch of the Fibreculture…

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