FibrecultureJournal is a peer reviewed journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. Other broad topics of interest include the cultural contexts, philosophy and politics of: information and creative industries, national strategies for innovation, research and development, education, media and culture, and new media arts.
The Main Journal Page: http://journal.fibreculture.org/
Call for Papers Main Page: http://journal.fibreculture.org/future.html#cfp
Currently, they are looking for general articles and one issue specificially entitled: CONTAGION AND THE DISEASES OF INFORMATION
Papers are invited for the 'Contagion and the Diseases of Information' Issue of the Fibreculture Journal, to be published in the first half of 2005. This issue will be Guest Edited by Dr Andrew Goffey. Please see the guidelines for the format and submission of contributions. These guidelines need to be followed in all cases. Contributions should be sent electronically, as attachments, to Andrew Goffey at aj_goffey@hotmail.com or a.goffey@mdx.ac.uk. The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2004.
We suffer today from data-sickness, from the becoming-disease of information. The great epidemics of centuries past have been complemented by epidemics of signification propagated by media, the mimetic rivalries of desire are replaced by the replicating mechanisms of viral culture and the vampire of capital gives way to the parasite of empire. Are there any seeds for a new health, for creative potential, germs of resistance to be extracted from an ecology in which the divisions between nature and culture, matter and information, biological life and art are becoming indiscernible?
