Mesh – Speculations and Submissions

FCJ Mesh has been launched of a desire to foster a more agile space of  speculation, provocation, and mobilisation of the kind of deep transdisciplinary theory and analysis published here in The Fibreculture Journal, in like Journals, and increasingly…well… everywhere online. What we might have once called ‘grey’ or ‘precarious’ literature – the always vital academic work published beyond the veil of institutional gatekeeping and auditing is increasingly moving to the visible foreground of academic knowledge production and research creation. Moreover, the constraints on its dispersal and its precarity of form have been largely overcome. These ‘post-institutional’ modes of publishing and of discussing ideas and their implications tend to be more agile, iterative and reticular, they tend to be shorter and more accessible, speculative and exploratory. Whether traditional and convergent forms of academic publishing will survive or can adapt to this shift is yet to be determined. We still see much value…

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