[eccr] cfp: Multitudes, Creative Organisation, and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour

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