[ecrea] VIVA CULTURE MACHINE!: Latin American Mediations - new issue of open access journal

We are pleased to announce the latest issue of the open access journal
Culture Machine <http://www.culturemachine.net> titled VIVA CULTURE
MACHINE!: LATIN AMERICAN MEDIATIONS, edited by Gabriela Méndez Cota. For
more details about the issue and the journal please see below.

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CULTURE MACHINE 15 (2014)
http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/issue/current

VIVA CULTURE MACHINE!: LATIN AMERICAN MEDIATIONS
edited by Gabriela Méndez Cota

In her 2013 book The Posthuman, Rosi Braidotti complains about critical
thought ‘after the great explosion of theoretical creativity of the
1970s and 1980s’: it was as if ‘we had entered a zombified landscape of
repetition without difference’, she writes. And no doubt
poststructuralist theory did in certain hands become another orthodoxy.
Yet given the degree of emphasis currently being placed on monistic,
realist, object-oriented and materialist ontologies in what is perceived
as the ‘cutting-edge’ critical thought of today, it is hard not to
wonder: are we in danger of embarking on another journey into
theoretical orthodoxy?

Sharing the frustration of Braidotti and others with the decline of so
much post-Marxism, deconstruction and psychoanalysis into mere
repetition without difference, Culture Machine has over the years
published essays and issues on various aspects of monism, realism and
materialism. Nevertheless, in an effort to ensure the journal avoids
succumbing to a zombified future by doing just more of the same, we have
decided to celebrate Culture Machine’s 15th anniversary by transferring
much of its editorial oversight to scholars located in Mexico. By
placing this bet on Mexico, we are endeavouring to force the Culture
Machine journal into inventing a different, unorthodox future for itself
that is at once both singular and unpredictable.

As a way of beginning the process of reinvention, for this 15th
anniversary issue of the journal we have invited a number of scholars,
writers, activists and artists from Latin America to provide us with a
series of contaminating mediations of Culture Machine and its history.
The issue is therefore designed to constitute something of a critical
retrospective, both offering new contributions and inviting the readers
to revisit some of the earlier work that was published in Culture
Machine. This is only a first step, however. The intention for future
issues is to invite increasing numbers of non-Anglo collaborators to
participate in Culture Machine, in English and in Spanish (and hopefully
in other languages too later on), and in this way join those in the
English-speaking world in helping to generate a more distributed,
decentred, multi-polar academic gift economy for the production,
publication and dissemination of contemporary theory.

Contents

* Culture Machine Editorial Collective / Viva Culture Machine!

* Gabriela Méndez Cota / Fifteen Years: a Textual Celebration

* Benjamín Mayer Foulkes interviewed by Gabriela Méndez Cota / Towards
the Post-University: Experimenting with Psychoanalysis and Institutions

* Stefania Haritou / Creativity in Practice

* Emilia Ismael Simental / Re: Recordings

* Nestor García Canclini and Maritza Urteaga interviewed by Emilia
Ismael Simental / The Hyper-affective Turn: Thinking the Social in the
Digital Age

* Euridice Cabañes and María Rubio / Arsgames: A Political Take on
Videogames and Social Networking Platforms

* Benjamín Moreno interviewed by Juan Pablo Anaya / The Electronic
Literature of Benjamín Moreno: Affect and Sense Outside the Conventions
of the Literary

* Alberto López Cuenca / Writing Errancy: Outcasts, Capitalism and Mobility

* Beatriz Miranda / Traveling through Remembrance as Praxis with
Disability Baggage

* Vivian Abenshushan interviewed by Gabriela Méndez Cota / The No-Work
Paradox

* Etelvina Bernal Méndez / The Flood Is Elsewhere

* Néstor Braunstein / Economics (and) the Politics of Attention

* Francisco Vergara Silva / Universal Bio-cosmopolitics, Or the
Perspectivism of Canine Life

* Gabriela Méndez Cota / Digital Humanities: Whose Changes Do You Want
to Save?

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ABOUT CULTURE MACHINE

Established in 1999 and now edited principally by Gabriela Méndez Cota,
with Clare Birchall, Dave Boothroyd, Gary Hall and Joanna Zylinska as
Executive Editors, and Rafico Ruiz as Reviews Editor, the Culture
Machine journal publishes new work from both established figures and
up-and-coming writers. It is fully refereed and has an International
Advisory Board that includes Geoffrey Bennington, Robert Bernasconi,
Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf, Alphonso Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul
Patton, Avital Ronell, Nicholas Royle and Kenneth Surin.

Culture Machine <http://www.culturemachine.net> is part of Open
Humanities Press:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org

*** See our sister projects ***

Photomediations Machine - a curated online space where the dynamic
relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can
be encountered, experienced and engaged
http://www.photomediationsmachine.net

Culture Machine Live – a podcast series dedicated to discussions of
culture, theory and new media
http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com

--
Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media
http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/
Visiting Professor, Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University
http://www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/forschung-projekte/alle/hybrid-publishing-lab.html
Website http://www.garyhall.info

New Book: Open Education: A Study in Disruption
(London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014) - co-authored by 
Coventry’s Open Media Group and Mute Publishing
http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/open-education


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