(Apologies for cross posting)

CALL FOR PAPERS

CULTURE MACHINE 9
2007
http://www.culturemachine.net


RECORDINGS

Editors for this issue:
Paul Hegarty and Gary Genosko

What is the current state of aural art media in ‘an era of digital
reproduction’? Which trails were followed in order to reach the present
of online and/or digital (sub)versions? Due consideration needs to be
given to the residues of technologies, the anachronisms, the failures,
the less-than-excellent, the dated, the outmoded, and even the
yet-to-work.  Once we take into account the material (or dematerialised)
art object, what about collecting cultures, recycling, destroyed and
broken media (the TV thrown from the window….), new broadcast media,
turntablism, noise, radio and its avatars, podcasting, any casting, the
range of material ‘supports’ (vinyl, the 8 track, betamax, different
audio files). Still, has the digital and informational swamped the world
in a mass encoded simulation?  What and where are the resistances?  Are
they within or outside of the digital?  In the junk heap of analogue
machines? In Ebay dreams? What are the material forms/formats that offer
critical models, avant-gardism, metacommentary and so on? What is the
status of the art commodity, non-commodity or hypercommodity?
Contributions on any of the above are welcomed, from any theoretical or
historical perspective.  Whilst sound is very important, due to its
apparent disappearance in ubiquity, submissions are invited to consider
other media (notably video art, DVD, streaming), provided it addresses
some of the above ideas.

Recommended length: 4000 – 7000 words

Submission deadline date: 1 Feb 2007.
All contributions to Culture Machine are refereed anonymously. Authors
should follow the Culture Machine Style Manual in preparing their
articles http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/papers.htm#submissions

Contact:
Editors for this issue: Paul Hegarty, University College Cork, Ireland
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Gary Genosko, Lakehead University, Canada
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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 eight editions of Culture Machine are Mark Amerika, Alain
Badiou, Geoffrey Bennington, Bifo, Oran Catts, Simon Critchley, Jacques
Derrida, Diane Elam, Johan Fornäs, Henry A. Giroux, Lawrence Grossberg,
Stevan Harnad, N. Katherine Hayles, Peggy Kamuf, David Kolb, Ernesto
Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Anna Munster, Michael Naas, Mark Poster,
Melinda Rackham, Tadeusz Slawek, Bernard Stiegler, Kenneth Surin,
Gregory L. Ulmer, Hal Varian, Cathryn Vasseleu 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/Cultural Theory.
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 welcomed, as are any forms of contribution that take advantage of
and explore the uses and limitations of digital technology.


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Dr Gary Hall
Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University
Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net
Director of the Cultural Studies e-Archive
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
My website http://www.garyhall.info