Dear Fibreculturalists,<br><br>New Issue Launched: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures — The Fibreculture Journal — FCJ20<br><br>Edited by Su Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller <br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/">http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/</a><br>
<br>Our 20th fully Open Access issue, in our 10th year of publishing!<br><br>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. <br><br>From the Su Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller's Editorial Essay:<br><br>The future began somewhere. The impulse behind this issue of <em>The Fibreculture Journal</em>
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.<br><br>Articles:<br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/18/fcj-138-this-is-not-a-bit-pipe-a-political-economy-of-the-substrate-network/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-138 This is not a Bit-Pipe: A Political Economy of the Substrate Network">FCJ-138 This is not a Bit-Pipe: A Political Economy of the Substrate Network</a>
Rachel O’Dwyer and Linda Doyle<br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-139-sand14-reconstructing-the-future-of-the-mobile-telecoms-industry/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-139 Sand14: Reconstructing the Future of the Mobile Telecoms Industry">FCJ-139 Sand14: Reconstructing the Future of the Mobile Telecoms Industry</a>
Laura Watts<br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-140-radio-feeds-satellite-feeds-network-feeds-subjectivity-across-the-straits-of-gibraltar/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-140 Radio Feeds, Satellite Feeds, Network Feeds: Subjectivity Across the Straits of Gibraltar">FCJ-140 Radio Feeds, Satellite Feeds, Network Feeds: Subjectivity Across the Straits of Gibraltar</a>
Nicholas Knouf<br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-141-spaces-for-play-architectures-of-wisdom-towards-a-utopic-spatial-practice/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-141 Spaces for Play – Architectures of Wisdom: Towards a Utopic Spatial Practice">FCJ-141 Spaces for Play – Architectures of Wisdom: Towards a Utopic Spatial Practice</a>
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Dan Frodsham </div><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-142-spectacles-and-tropes-speculative-design-and-contemporary-food-cultures/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-142 Spectacles and Tropes: Speculative Design and Contemporary Food Cultures">FCJ-142 Spectacles and Tropes: Speculative Design and Contemporary Food Cultures</a>
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Carl DiSalvo<br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-143-ouvertopen-common-utopias/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-143 Ouvert/Open: Common Utopias">FCJ-143 Ouvert/Open: Common Utopias</a>
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Nathalie Casemajor Loustau and Heather Davis<br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-144-healthymagination-anticipating-health-of-our-future-selves/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-144 Healthymagination: Anticipating Health of our Future Selves">FCJ-144 Healthymagination: Anticipating Health of our Future Selves</a>
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Marina Levina<br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/19/fcj-145-temporal-utopianism-and-global-information-networks/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-145 Temporal Utopianism and Global Information Networks">FCJ-145 Temporal Utopianism and Global Information Networks</a>
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Andrew White<br><br><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/20/fcj-146-mannheims-paradox-ideology-utopia-media-technologies-and-the-arab-spring/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-146 Mannheim’s Paradox: Ideology, Utopia, Media Technologies, and the Arab Spring">FCJ-146 Mannheim’s Paradox: Ideology, Utopia, Media Technologies, and the Arab Spring</a>
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Rowan Wilkens </div><br></div><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/2012/06/20/fcj-147-liberation-technology-and-the-arab-spring-from-utopia-to-atopia-and-beyond/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to FCJ-147 Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond">FCJ-147 Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond</a>
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Ulises A. Mejias </div></div><br></div><a href="http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/">http://twenty.fibreculturejournal.org/</a></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>"A traveller, who has lost his way, should not ask, Where am I? What he really wants to know is, Where are the other places" - Alfred North Whitehead<br>
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