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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#FF0000">We have just
released two new issues of<i> Transformations.</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#FF0000">No. 11 Edges and
Centres: Contemporary Experience and Lifestyle</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#FF0000">No. 12 Rethinking
Regionality</font></div>
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Transformations</i> please go to</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#663300">Issue No. 11
(November 2005) - Edges and Centres: Contemporary Experience and
Lifestyle</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#663300">In his book<i> The
Experience of Freedom</i>, Jean-Luc Nancy describes experience as the
site of a perilous freedom: "an experience is an attempt executed
without reserve, given over to the peril of its own lack of foundation
and security in this 'object' of which it is not the subject but
instead the passion" (20). Experience is what a subject 'has' as
a response to the forces of capital, technology, and the discursive
practices that produce the body as an object in a field of forces that
perpetually inform the subject's feeling and orientation to the world.
Experience is both inside and outside the body, a perilous journey
that both confirms and undermines the foundations of
subjectivity.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#663300">The articles in this
issue of Transformations examine contemporary experience as the effect
of technologies of mediation and representation, as well as lifestyle
exchanges that flow into and out of everyday life. There are edge
experiences and cIsentre experiences. Simply put, edge experiences
dismantle centred subjectivity and the categories of subjectification
that identify subjects in their subordination to discourse; centre
experiences confirm the identity of subjects to discourse. Both edge
and centre experiences involve the empowerment and disempowerment of
subjects as living beings, and define limit potentials for life as it
might be lived.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#663300">Issue No. 12
(December 2005) - Rethinking Regionality</font></div>
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This issue of Transformations, titled "Rethinking
Regionality", arises from a mini-conference titled Concepts for
Change: Representation, Community and the Transformative Power of
Technology. This conference was held at Bundaberg in November 2004 as
a joint production of the Transformations journal and the Bundaberg
Media Research Group.<br>
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Globalisation and all that can be implied by that term has been
exerting considerable pressure on the traditional idea of regions and
on everyday life in the regions. This issue of Transformations is
interested in exploring beyond the centre-periphery model of
regionality, and particularly with both critical and artistic
engagements with regionality.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#663300">The articles and
artworks in this issue explore, in various ways, new and transformed
approaches for engaging a critical regionality.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#663300">Regards</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#663300">Warwick</font></div>
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