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Call for Papers – the Fibreculture Journal – Mobility, New Social <BR>
Intensities, and the Coordinates of Digital Networks, 2004<BR>
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(please circulate)<BR>
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:: fibreculture:: has established itself as Australasia's leading forum <BR>
for discussion of internet theory, criticism, and research. The <BR>
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>
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Papers are invited for the ‘Mobility, New Social Intensities and the <BR>
Coordinates of Digital Networks’ Issue of the Fibreculture Journal, to <BR>
be published late in 2004/early in 2005. The issue will be co-edited by <BR>
Larissa Hjorth and Andrew Murphie.<BR>
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There are guidelines for the format and submission of contributions at <BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://journal.fibreculture.org">http://journal.fibreculture.org</a></U></FONT> <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://journal.fibreculture.org/</U></FONT>> . <BR>
These guidelines need to be followed in all cases. Contributions should <BR>
be sent electronically, as attachments, to Andrew Murphie at <BR>
<<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>a.murphie@unsw.edu.au</U></FONT>>, or Larissa Hjorth at <BR>
<<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>larissahjorth@hotmail.com</U></FONT>>.<BR>
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The deadline for submissions is September 22, 2004.<BR>
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MOBILITY, NEW SOCIAL INTENSITIES, AND THE COORDINATES OF DIGITAL <BR>
NETWORKS<BR>
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From stirrups to satellites, the invention of new forms of <BR>
technically-assisted mobility has always created new intensities within <BR>
the social. Each invention has also required a new idea of what it <BR>
might be to be human, along with new tensions as older cultural <BR>
practices and social forms are challenged.<BR>
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The contemporary mobility of digital networks is no exception. This <BR>
issue of the Fibreculture Journal will be concerned with documenting, <BR>
and thinking about, the new mobile intensities allowed by digital <BR>
networks.<BR>
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We are very interested in receiving contributions dealing with mobile <BR>
telephony. However, we are also interested in contributions that deal <BR>
with related or other forms of digital mobility. In addition to mobile <BR>
telephony, contributions might include discussions of wireless <BR>
networking, the folding of the Internet into other technical networks, <BR>
or the complexity of relations between older and newer social networks <BR>
when both are brought into the coordinates of digital networks.<BR>
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* How does mobility change these networks? How are relations within <BR>
these networks transformed?<BR>
* What new forms of social and cultural expression are made available <BR>
by the new mobilities?<BR>
* How are older forms of social regulation, discipline and control <BR>
attempting to adapt to the new mobilities?<BR>
* Can we still talk of “the social” in the same manner as we used to? <BR>
What kinds of social theory are adequate/inadequate to the new social <BR>
intensities of mobility? Does social theory need to be re-invented in <BR>
the light of new mobile multitudes?<BR>
* Do mobile networks create new forms of “immobile intensity”, in which <BR>
relatively stationary positions within the networks are brought new <BR>
intensive experience?<BR>
* How is mobility transforming our relation to screens? What does it <BR>
mean when screens/images are networked and mobile?<BR>
* How are gender and sexuality expressed within the new mobilities?<BR>
* How is mobility transforming work? Education? Politics?<BR>
* Is mobility transforming the configurations of cultural memory?<BR>
* How does mobility change the way institions are organised?<BR>
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The Fibreculture Journal is especially interested in contributions that <BR>
investigate the tensions between older and newer notions of the <BR>
social/social practices played out within the new mobility of the <BR>
network.<BR>
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"I thought I had reached port; but I seemed to be cast<BR>
back again into the open sea" (Deleuze and Guattari, after Leibniz)<BR>
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Dr Andrew Murphie - Senior Lecturer<BR>
School of Media and Communications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2052<BR>
web:<a href="http://media.arts.unsw.edu.au/homepage/Staff/Murphie/">http://media.arts.unsw.edu.au/homepage/Staff/Murphie/</a><BR>
fax:612 93856812 tlf:612 93855548 email: a.murphie@unsw.edu.au<BR>
room 311H, Webster Building<BR>
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