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Fibreculture Journal <br>
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</a></u></font>Call for papers<br><br>
Multitudes, Creative Organisation, and the Precarious Condition of <br>
New Media Labour (2004)<br><br>
:: fibreculture :: has established itself as Australasia's leading <br>
forum for discussion of internet theory, culture, and research. The
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Fibreculture Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the <br>
issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture <br>
network and wider social formations.<br><br>
Papers are invited for the 'Multitudes, Creative Organisation, and <br>
the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour' issue of the <br>
Fibreculture Journal, to be published by the end of 2004. This issue
<br>
will be guest edited by Brett Neilson, Ned Rossiter and Geert
Lovink.<br><br>
There are guidelines for the format and submission of contributions
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at
<a href="http://journal.fibreculture.org/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://journal.fibreculture.org<br><br>
</a></u></font>These guidelines need to be followed in all cases.
Contributions <br>
should be sent electronically, as word attachments, to:<br><br>
Geert Lovink geert@xs4all.nl <br>
Brett Neilson b.neilson@uws.edu.au <br>
Ned Rossiter n.rossiter@ulster.ac.uk<br><br>
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Multitudes, Creative Organisation, and the Precarious Condition of <br>
New Media Labour<br><br>
Post-Fordist techniques of flexible accumulation coupled with the <br>
widespread use of new communications media have had a profound impact
<br>
on the organisation of social relations. In recent years the <br>
"Creative Industries" have emerged across the UK and Ireland,
United <br>
States and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Europe and Asia as the new
idiom <br>
by which governments, the culture industries and the higher education
<br>
sector engage in the management of populations. The primary mission
<br>
of the Creative Industries is to extract an economic value from a <br>
heterogeneous array of cultural practices.<br><br>
Accompanying the self-valorising rhetoric of the Creative Industries
<br>
is an intensification of the precarious situation of cognitive <br>
labourers - a mode of engagement that is common to those working in
<br>
both symbolic production and the more menial tasks associated with <br>
the service industries. While the specific forms of exploitation of
<br>
labour-power vary across industries and along the lines of class, <br>
gender, ethnicity, age and geography, all precarious labour practices
<br>
generate new forms of subjectivity and connection, organised about <br>
networks of communication, cognition, and affect.<br><br>
These new forms of co-operation and collaboration amongst creative <br>
labourers contribute to the formation of a new socio-technical and <br>
politico-ethical multitude. The contemporary multitude is radically
<br>
dissimilar from the unity of "the people" and the coincidence
of the <br>
citizen and the state. What kinds of creative organisation are <br>
specific to precarious labour in the era of informatisation? How do
<br>
they connect (or disconnect) to existing forms of institutional life?
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And how can escape from the subjectification of precarious labour be
<br>
enacted without nostalgia for the social state or utopian faith in <br>
the spontaneity of auto-organisation?<br><br>
This issue of the Fibreculture Journal is interested in receiving <br>
individually and multi-authored contributions that may adopt the <br>
following expressive forms:<br><br>
* theoretical interventions <br>
* reflexive empirical studies of precarious labourers <br>
* personal accounts by those working in new media and related
industries<br><br>
The editors will not be privileging one genre over the other, and all
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will be subject to peer review. Contributions may range from short <br>
meditations to longer studies. See the journal's submission <br>
guidelines for more details.<br><br>
The deadline for submissions is August 30, 2004. Peer review & author
<br>
revisions will be completed by October, with a launch date of <br>
November 2004.<br><br>
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Dr. Brett Neilson<br>
Postgraduate Coordinator<br>
Centre for Cultural Research<br>
University of Western Sydney <br>
PENRITH SOUTH DC NSW 1797 <br>
AUSTRALIA<br>
Tel: +61-2-4736-0387<br>
Fax: +61-2-4736-0224<br>
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