Announcing FCJ29: Computing the City

We are happy to announce the publication of FCJ29: Computing the City (https://twentynine.fibreculturejournal.org) edited by Armin Beverungen, Florian Sprenger and Su Ballard.

Announcing FCJ26: Entanglements – Activism and Technology

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Special Issue FCJ26: Entanglements – Activism and Technology edited by Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess with Fibreculture Journal Editor Su Ballard. There is an extraordinary amount of work here and i’d like to thank everyone involved. This is the largest issue in FCJ history and includes an additional section dedicated to reports from practitioners -‘on the ground’ Issue 26 features: FCJ-188 Disability’s Digital Frictions: Activism, Technology, and Politics Katie Ellis, Gerard Goggin and Mike Kent FCJ-189 Reimagining Work: Entanglements and Frictions around Future of Work Narratives Laura Forlano and Megan Halpern FCJ-190 Building a Better Twitter: A Study of the Twitter Alternatives GNU social, Quitter, rstat.us, and Twister Robert W. Gehl FCJ-191 Mirroring the Videos of Anonymous: Cloud Activism, Living Networks, and Political Mimesis Adam Fish FCJ-192 Sand in the Information Society Machine: How Digital Technologies Change and…

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CFP- Special Issue of the Fibreculture Journal: Exploring affect in interaction design, interaction-based art and digital art

Guest Editors: Thomas Markussen and Jonas Fritsch https://fibreculturejournal.org/ abstract deadline: February 27, 2011 (200-300 words) article deadline: June 30, 2011 publication aimed for: October, 2011 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: Thomas dot Markussen at aarch dot dk/ jonas dot fritsch at gmail dot com The notion of affect does take many forms, and you’re right to begin by emphasizing that. To get anywhere with the concept, you have to retain the manyness of its forms. It’s not something that can be reduced to one thing. Mainly, because it’s not a thing. It’s an event, or a dimension of every event. What interests me in the concept is that if you approach it respecting its variety, you are presented with a field of questioning, a problematic field, where the customary divisions that questions about subjectivity,…

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CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: Networked utopias and speculative futures

Editors: Susan Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller https://fibreculturejournal.org/ abstract deadline: February 20, 2011 article deadline: May 30, 2011 publication aimed for: November, 2011 all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at; https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/ before working with the Fibreculture Journal email correspondence for this issue: Susan dot Ballard at op dot ac dot nz lizzie at lizziemuller dot com zita dot joyce at canterbury dot ac dot nz Since most of history’s giant trees have already been cut down, a new Ark will have to be constructed out of the materials that a desperate humanity finds at hand in insurgent communities, pirate technologies, bootlegged media, rebel science and forgotten utopias. Mike Davis “Who Will Build an Ark: The Utopian Imperative in an Age of Catastrophe” in Telepolis [Germany], 12/11/2008 For many centuries the dawn of the new millennium –the year 2000– epitomised the future to come. The twentieth century raced…

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Call for Abstracts/Papers: “Trans” – Transversals, Transduction, Transmateriality.

Issue Editors: Adrian Mackenzie, Andrew Murphie (fibreculturejournal@gmail.com: for editorial inquiries) and Mitchell Whitelaw Abstracts due: March 31 Full Submissions Due: May 31 Publication: Aimed for late November 2010 Articles must be submitted in full Fibreculture Journal house style. You can also access information about house style at https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/. You must first read the Guidelines for Submission at https://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/. [Please note, submissions not in house style will automatically be returned to authors for formatting. That is, you will not be able to have your paper considered for publication unless you have formatted it correctly. The journal is peer reviewed and authors are expected to take readers reports into consideration when finalising their articles for publication. Negotiation with the editors over potential changes is usual practice.] Digital, networked and informational media are extremely dynamic, and constantly diversifying in form and function at a dizzying rate. They fuse with social (and “natural”) worlds…

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