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[RRE]M/C Call for Contributors: 'machine' issue
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:29:27 +1000
From: "Axel Bruns"
M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture
Call for Contributors: 'machine' issue, edited by Sean Aylward Smith and Nick Caldwell
The University of Queensland's award-winning journal of media and culture, M/C, is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic. Initiated by cultural critic David Marshall and supported by a variety of contributors from the University of Queensland and elsewhere, it is a journal that is set to be a premier site of cultural debate on the Net. M/C's incisive and insightful articles, presented in a Website that is well-designed and easy to navigate, have already won a number of Web awards.
M/C issues are each organised around a theme. We are current inviting contributors for the 'machine' issue -- here are some ideas to get you into gear:
What is a machine? What does it mean to use a machine? Or... to be used by one?
With the advent of increasingly personalised, minaturised, and even intelligent machines, the modernist distinction between machines as dead labour and rational humanity has become increasingly untenable. In this edition of M/C we open the blackbox of the machine, the dark heart of the technology where the "human" resides.
For this issue we invite contributions that deal with "machine" in a novel and unique way, emphasising the immanent materiality of the subject/object of the machine.
Submissions can be made to mc@mailbox.uq.edu.au or directly to the issue editors Nick Caldwell (n.caldwell@mailbox.uq.edu.au) and Sean Smith (s.a.smith@mailbox.uq.edu.au).
Future issues will deal with concepts such as 'food', 'end', 'future', and 'audience'. For these issues, we're looking for article contributors -- please contact us if you think you have an interesting contribution to make on any of these topics. M/C is a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Australian academics should note that articles in M/C are classified in the DEETYA category 'C1', as long as they are connected to new research.
To see what M/C is all about, check out our Website, which contains
all the issues released so far, at
Further topics for 1999 and 2000 are:
'food' (deadline 4 Oct. / release 20 Oct.) 'end' (deadline 15 Nov. / release 1 Dec.) 'future' (deadline 27 Dec. / release 13 Jan.) 'audience' (deadline 7 Feb. / release 23 Feb.) 'culture' (deadline 20 Mar. / release 5 Apr.) 'speed' (deadline 1 May / release 17 May) 'chat' (deadline 12 June / release 28 June) 'game' (deadline 24 July / release 9 Aug.) 'screen' (deadline 4 Sep. / release 20 Sep.) 'black' (deadline 16 Oct. / release 1 Nov.) 'festival' (deadline 27 Nov. / release 13 Dec.)
We're looking forward to your articles !
Axel Bruns
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