[ecrea] Transformations Issue 14 'Accidental Environments' now out

>Transformations announces the publication of Issue 14 -  March 2007
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>ACCIDENTAL ENVIRONMENTS
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>The Accident is not an exception or a sickness 
>of our apolitical regimes; nor it is a 
>correctable defect of our civilization: it is 
>the natural consequence of our science, our politics, and our morality.
>­ Octavio Paz, Conjunctions and Disjunctions.
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>Our lives are filled with accidents, from the 
>mundanity of spilled milk and a slip of the 
>tongue, to large-scale, mediated and mediatized 
>accidents; here we sit, glued to the screens, as 
>increasing numbers of unruly cyclones smash into 
>tropical coasts, as Black-Hawk helicopters fall 
>out of Iraqi and Afghani skies, as friendly-fire 
>death reports issue from the war-zones of the 
>Middle-East, as narcotized teenagers suicide on 
>the side-effects of their over-prescribed 
>anti-depressants. Representations of the 
>accident span the highs and lows of culture; 
>there is a popular culture of the accident and 
>the disaster  remember when The Coast was 
>Toast!?  and an avant-garde culture of chance 
>and aleatoric production. There is a discourse 
>and an aesthetic of the accident, a mode of 
>concerned and shocked reportage and a standard 
>plot-line by which to invite the accident in, to 
>excite, abreact and entertain. Accidents are 
>events, and they produce events, they are 
>constituted within spectacular milieux.
>
>Accidents are generally understood to happen by 
>chance. They are seen as the mark of a failure 
>to maintain control of an environment, or as the 
>unexpected outcome of natural environmental 
>occurrences. But perhaps accidents can be seen 
>in another way, as productive, in the sense that 
>seemingly incongruous things and events coincide 
>or collide and together create possibilities and 
>release potentials. Or maybe, as Octavio Paz 
>suggests, theyre not accidents at all! In a 
>world that is increasingly reliant on 
>technological means of knowing and doing, 
>accidents come thick and fast, and the 
>accidentality of the accident is brought soundly into question.
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>
>ARTICLES:
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>Cruel Weather: Natural Disasters and Structural Violence
>Dennis Soron
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>Machine Breaths: Assembling the Mechanical Ventilator Body
>Bjorn Nansen
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>Toxic Shock: Gendered Environments and Embodied 
>Knowledge in Don DeLillos White Noise and Todd Hayness [Safe]
>Rachel Carroll
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>Calculated Uncertainty: Computers, Chance 
>Encounters, and "Community" in the Work of Cedric Price'
>Rowan Wilken
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>The Accidental Topology of Digital Culture: How the Network Becomes Viral
>Tony Sampson
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>Accidental Participation in Control, in the Small of Society
>Don Winiecki
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>Access at
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><http://transformations.cqu.edu.au>http://transformations.cqu.edu.au
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>The Editors
>Regards
>
>Warwick
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>Dr. Warwick Mules
>General Editor, 
>Transformations 
><http://transformations.cqu.edu.au>http://transformations.cqu.edu.au
>Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies
>Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education
>Central Queensland University
>Bundaberg Campus
>Bundaberg Queensland 4670
>Australia
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>Adjunct Senior Lecturer
>School of English, Media and Art History
>University of Queensland
>Australia
>
>Phone: 07 41507142
>Fax: 07 41507090
>Mobile: 0412292541
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