12,149 Call for Papers, M/C Journal

Call for Papers: ‘technique’
Issue Edited by Adam Muir and Daniel Hourigan

technique [a] journal.media-culture.org.au.

CFP:
‘technique’

FULL ARTICLE FINAL DEADLINE:  27 Feb 2015

In this issue we are interested in technique, crafting, making, hacking – as these ideas relate to the knowledge or know-how that informs the social contexts that transform a technology into a medium of expression.

We are seeking contributions which challenge, augment and productively reposition the notion of technique(s) as it relates to: social praxis involving knowledge that breaches the purely technical; techne and/or crafting that masters, re-purposes, or hacks media broadly conceived; the negotiations with technology that produce new aesthetic, social and political forms; other forms of knowing-and-doing that are intellectually fecund.

Areas for consideration may include:

* political dimensions of makers / hackers
* psychic dimensions of technology: techne, knowledge, know-how
* economy of code as interface to technology
* critique of technological production
* media praxis
* communities of crafting
* political economy of «new» media
* cultural techniques
* forgotten histories of technology/media
* techniques of control as they relate to knowledge or process

Such areas may manifest as questions such as:

* what are the cultural politics of craft and technology?
* where does technique rupture technology or media?
* why does understanding techniques make a difference in contemporary life?
* how does mastery of techniques re-imagine and interrupt know-how?
* does contemporary understanding of specific techniques reveal alternative histories?

Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors.

Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument.

Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests.

Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography).

All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition).

Details
Article deadline:   27 Feb. 2015    (2015/02/27)
Release date:       29 Apr. 2015    (2015/04/29)
Editors:  Adam Muir and Daniel Hourigan

Please submit completed articles through the M/C Website.

Send any email enquiries to
technique [a] journal.media-culture.org.au.
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