[ecrea] New Issue Launched: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures — The Fibreculture Journal — FCJ20

New Issue Launched: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures — The 
Fibreculture Journal — FCJ20

Edited by Su Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller

http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/

Our 20th fully Open Access issue, in our 10th year of publishing!

Articles on: The material substrate of networks; the Arab Spring; 
re-imagining mobile communications via encounters with a neolithic 
village; the 'freedom of movement and freedom of knowledge' events that 
have taken place between Spain and Morocco; utopias and political 
economies of networks, space and time; networks and health; networks and 
food; and Montréal residents' appropriation of train tracks.

>From the Su Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller's Editorial Essay:

The future began somewhere. The impulse behind this issue of /The 
Fibreculture Journal/ was a crisis of imagination with regards to how 
the future might look and behave. Our starting point was the notion of 
post-millennial tension – the idea that in the decades following the 
year 2000 we find ourselves living in an era that was meant to be the 
future, but where many of our futuristic hopes and fantasies remain 
unfulfilled. Worse, our historical visions of hyper-technological 
futures seem to have propelled us into a perilous position where 
humankind may not have any kind of future at all. In the space between 
ever-hopeful techno-futurism and the realities of a world forever 
changed by the pursuit of the resources required to fuel it, we asked if 
the age-old concept of utopia still has the strength to generate 
galvanising visions of the future.

Articles:

FCJ-138 This is not a Bit-Pipe: A Political Economy of the Substrate 
Network 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/18/fcj-138-this-is-not-a-bit-pipe-a-political-economy-of-the-substrate-network/> 
Rachel O’Dwyer and Linda Doyle

FCJ-139 Sand14: Reconstructing the Future of the Mobile Telecoms 
Industry 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-139-sand14-reconstructing-the-future-of-the-mobile-telecoms-industry/> 
Laura Watts

FCJ-140 Radio Feeds, Satellite Feeds, Network Feeds: Subjectivity Across 
the Straits of Gibraltar 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-140-radio-feeds-satellite-feeds-network-feeds-subjectivity-across-the-straits-of-gibraltar/> 
Nicholas Knouf

FCJ-141 Spaces for Play – Architectures of Wisdom: Towards a Utopic 
Spatial Practice 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-141-spaces-for-play-architectures-of-wisdom-towards-a-utopic-spatial-practice/> 

Dan Frodsham

FCJ-142 Spectacles and Tropes: Speculative Design and Contemporary Food 
Cultures 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-142-spectacles-and-tropes-speculative-design-and-contemporary-food-cultures/> 

Carl DiSalvo

FCJ-143 Ouvert/Open: Common Utopias 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-143-ouvertopen-common-utopias/> 

Nathalie Casemajor Loustau and Heather Davis

FCJ-144 Healthymagination: Anticipating Health of our Future Selves 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-144-healthymagination-anticipating-health-of-our-future-selves/> 

Marina Levina

FCJ-145 Temporal Utopianism and Global Information Networks 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-145-temporal-utopianism-and-global-information-networks/> 

Andrew White

FCJ-146 Mannheim’s Paradox: Ideology, Utopia, Media Technologies, and 
the Arab Spring 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/20/fcj-146-mannheims-paradox-ideology-utopia-media-technologies-and-the-arab-spring/> 

Rowan Wilkens

FCJ-147 Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia 
and Beyond 
<http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/20/fcj-147-liberation-technology-and-the-arab-spring-from-utopia-to-atopia-and-beyond/> 

Ulises A. Mejias

http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/


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