::fc-announce:: Fibreculture Journal - Issue 4 - Contagion and the Diseases of Information

[Andrew Murphie]

Launch of the Fibreculture Journal - Issue 4 (2005)
(http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue4/index.html)

The Fibreculture Journal team (http://journal.fibreculture.org) has now 
put issue 4 - Contagion and the Diseases of Information - online.

We are very pleased to announce that FCJ's Issue 4 is our first guest 
edited issue - edited by Andrew Goffey. It contains articles by the 
following authors:

Eugene Thacker - "Living Dead Networks"
Jussi Parikka - "Digital Monsters, Binary Aliens – Computer Viruses, 
Capitalism and the Flow of Information"
Roberta Buiani "Marginal Networks: The Virus between Complexity and 
Suppression"
Stamatia Portanova "Rhythmic Parasites: A Virological Analysis of Sound 
and Dance"

The Fibreculture Journal is the online journal of the Fibreculture 
network of critical Internet research and culture in Australasia. It 
has grown out of the 'fibreculture' online mailing list that started in 
2001 (http://www.fibreculture.org). Dedicated to critical discussion of 
the Internet and new media in relation to IT policy, networked culture, 
new media education and arts in an Australasian context, the list now 
has over 750 subscribers.

The Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed, scholarly publication that 
extends the research and theoretical discussion of the list culture. 
The journal encourages transdisciplinary approaches to thinking about 
new media and networked knowledge and practices and seeks to foster 
experimental and dissident intellectual endeavours.

During the next year the journal is publishing issues concerning:

Multitudes, Creative Organisation, and the Precarious Condition of
New Media Labour
Mobility, New Social Intensities, and the Coordinates of Digital 
Networks
Distributed Aesthetics
Games Networks
New Pedagodies for New Media

Thanks to everyone involved in the Contagion issue - especially Andrew 
Goffey, our guest editor, and Lisa Gye who manages the journal, designs 
the site, and keeps things running smoothly, the rest of the hard 
working editorial committee (Anna Munster, Gillian Fuller, Esther 
Milne, Ingrid Richardson, Ned Rossiter, Lisa Gye), all the referees who 
have given their time and expertise, the editorial board for their 
support, myspinach.org for their ongoing support of Fibreculture, and, 
last but not least, the authors who have provided us with such 
excellent material.

Andrew Murphie


--
"Opposites Extract" - Paul D. Miller, Rhythm Science

Dr Andrew Murphie
Senior Lecturer
School of Media and Communications
University of New South Wales, 2052
Sydney, Australia

web:http://media.arts.unsw.edu.au/andrewmurphie/
http://journal.fibreculture.org/
phone: 93855548
fax: 93856812