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CULTURE MACHINE 5
 February, 2003

http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk

The e-issue

Editor for this issue: Gary Hall

In Archive Fever, in what in just a few years has already become one of
the most frequently referred to passages in his oeuvre, Jacques Derrida
suggests that electronic media technologies are not only transforming
the process of analysing, communicating and conserving knowledge, they
are transforming the very nature of knowledge. It is some of the effects
of media communications technologies on knowledge, both its form and
content, that we would like to explore in this  e-issue  of Culture
Machine.

The example Derrida gives in Archive Fever concerns psychoanalysis
(although he also refers to literature, philosophy and love letters in a
related passage in The Post Card), but contributions might examine the
effects of different electronic technologies on a variety of fields -
cultural studies, gender studies, politics, history, science, law,
medicine, biology, anthropology, art history - as well as on ideas of
the book, the letter, the university, the library, the art gallery and
the museum, as well as, of course, the archive.

Do telephones, the cinema, radios, portable tape recorders, CDs, VCRs,
DVDs, cell phones, computers, printers, faxes, televisions,
teleconferences, communications satellites, the Internet, the World Wide
Web, hyper-text, e-mail, the e-book, Bluetooth et al produce
possibilities for prosthetically  improving  the performance of our
current disciplinary fields and forms of knowledge (in terms of the
amount of material that can be stored, the speed of production, the ease
of information retrieval, the range of distribution, reductions in
reproduction, distribution and staffing of posts)? Or does our present
 discourse network , to borrow Friedrich Kittler s term, contain the
potential to bring such fields and forms to an end? What happens to
teaching, writing and research when the academic gift economy -
recognised through peer-to-peer computing (P2P), open source, freeware
or shareware - is taken as a model for the communication, publication
and exchange of ideas? Or when, as has already been the case with some
contributions to Culture Machine

http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j001/Test/index.htm
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Articles/art_kolb/Introduction_143.htm
http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/art.harn.htm)

digital publications stop trying to merely transfer print aesthetics
into an electronic form and start producing texts which are 'born
digital': texts which are not restricted to the book or essay format but
which, as Lev Manovitch maintains, take the database as the 'new
symbolic form of [the] computer age', and consequently 'do not tell
stories  don't have beginning or end; in fact  don't have any
development, thematically, formally or otherwise which would organise
their elements into a sequence'; or are produced as 'codework', in which
the technical and cultural practices of electronic writing are combined.

Contributions that take advantage of and explore the effects of
electronic media technologies in their form, as well as content, are of
course welcomed. So, too, are those which experiment with the way in
which electronic media technologies may place the very legitimacy of
certain forms of knowledge in question.

Deadline for submissions: October 2002.

Contact:
Gary Hall
School of Arts
Middlesex University
White Hart Lane
London N17 8HR
UK
E-mail: g.hall at mdx.ac.uk


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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.

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. 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 also
welcomed, as are any forms of contribution that take advantage of and
explore the uses and limitations of digital technology.

Culture Machine publishes one edition of the journal each year, with
Culture Machine 5 appearing at the beginning of 2003. All contributions
to the journal are refereed anonymously. Authors should follow the
Culture Machine Style Manual in preparing their articles
(http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk).

Anyone with material they would like to submit to the journal for
publication is invited to contact the editors:

Dave Boothroyd
Department of Social Policy and Sociology
University of Kent
Canterbury
UK
e-mail: d.boothroyd at ukc.ac.uk

Gary Hall
School of Arts
Middlesex University
White Hart lane
London N17 8HR
UK
e-mail: g.hall at mdx.ac.uk



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