On 09/05/2019, 15:42, "Gary Hall" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



    We are excited to announce the publication of the latest edition of the 

    open access journal Culture Machine (http://culturemachine.net). This is 

    a special double-issue, consisting of:

    

    Culture Machine Vol. 17 (2019):  Thermal Objects, edited by Elena Beregow

    

    Culture Machine Vol. 18 (2019): The Nature of Data Centers, edited by 

    Mél Hogan and Asta Vonderau

    

    The contents of each issue are provided below.

    

    Established in 1999, Culture Machine is now edited principally by 

    Gabriela Méndez Cota and Rafico Ruiz. Its aim is to seek out and promote 

    scholarly work that engages provocatively with contemporary technical 

    objects, processes and imaginaries from the North and South. Building on 

    its open ended, non-instrumental, and exploratory approach to critical 

    theory, Culture Machine is actively calling for creative proposals that 

    contest and come up against globalizing technical narratives and the 

    environmental logics of extraction.

    

    Culture Machine is part of Open Humanities Press:

    http://www.openhumanitiespress.org

    

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    Vol. 17: Thermal Objects, edited by Elena Beregow

    http://culturemachine.net/vol-17-thermal-objects/

    

    Editorial: Theorizing Temperatures and the Social − Elena Beregow

    

    Time, Temperature and its Informational Turn – Wolfgang Ernst

    

    Hot and Cold Techniques in the Longue Durée of Media − Erhard Schüttpelz

    

    Cooked or Fermented? The Thermal Logic of Social Transformation − Elena 

    Beregow

    

    Thermocultures of Memory – Samir Bhowmik

    

    Natural Ice and the Emerging Cryopolis: A Historical Perspective on 

    Urban Cold Infrastructure – Paula Schönach

    

    Infernal Machinery: Thermopolitics of the Explosion − Nigel Clark

    

    Thermal Violence: Heat Rays, Sweatboxes and the Politics of Exposure − 

    Nicole Starosielski

    

    As ‘index and metaphor’: Migration and the Thermal Imaginary in Richards 

    Mosse’s Incoming − Niall Martin

    

    Distance Runners as Thermal Objects: Temperature Work, Somatic Learning 

    and Thermal Attunement – John Hockey and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson

    

    Posthuman Dance: Body Heart and Haptic Intimacy in ORA – Hilary Bergen

    

    Thermal Envelopes: Heat and Warmth in Installation Art − Gunnar Schmidt

    

    Performative Raw Clay Practices and Ceramic Firing Techniques − Agustina 

    Andreoletti

    

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    Vol. 18: The Nature of Data Centers, edited by Mél Hogan and Asta Vonderau

    http://culturemachine.net/vol-18-the-nature-of-data-centers/

    

    Editorial − Mél Hogan and Asta Vonderau

    

    Resurrection from Bunkers and Data Centers − Adam Fish and Bradley L. 

    Garrett

    

    Emplacing Data Within Imperial Histories: Imagining Iceland as Data 

    Centers’ ‘Natural’ Home − Alix Johnson

    

    Silicon Forest and Server Farms: The (Urban) Nature of Digital 

    Capitalism in the Pacific Northwest − Anthony M Levenda and Dillon Mahmoudi

    

      The Second Coming: Google and Internet Infrastructure – Vicki Mayer

    

    An Apple a Day: Listening to Data Centre Site Selection through a 

    Sonospheric Investigation − Matt Parker

    

    Managing Carbon and Data Flows: Fungible Forms of Mediation in the Cloud 

    − Anne Pasek

    

    The Data Center as Technological Wilderness − A.R.E Taylor

    

    Data Centres as Impermanent Infrastructures − Julia Velkova

    

    Storing Data, Infrastructuring the Air: Thermocultures of the Cloud − 

    Asta Vonderau

    

    When Infrastructure Becomes Failure: A material analysis of the 

    limitations of cloud gaming services − Sean RM Willett

    

    

    (Please note that a temporary issue with the site's SSL certificate 

    requires you to view the issues on a secure network)

    

    -- 

    Gary Hall, http://www.garyhall.info

    Professor of Media, Coventry University

    Director of Open Humanities Press: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org

    

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    ‘Pirate Philosophy’, This Is Not A Pipe Podcast (2018)

    https://www.tinapp.org/episodes/piratephilosophy

    

    HyperCritical Theory

    https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/osc/2018/10/22/innovation-in-scholarly-communication-liquid-books/

    

    Übercapitalism and What Can Be Done About It (2018)

    https://ucubranchsolidaritynetwork.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/branch-activists-handbook-published/

    

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