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CFP: DIGITAL FABRICATIONS AMONGST HACKERS, MAKERS AND MANUFACTURERS: WHOSE ‘INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION’? (4S Barcelona)
by maxigas 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

CFP: DIGITAL FABRICATIONS AMONGST HACKERS, MAKERS AND MANUFACTURERS: WHOSE ‘INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION’? (4S Barcelona) We invite abstracts for a track we are organising on the theme of digital fabrications amongst hackers, makers and manufacturers, and which will take place in Barcelona over August 31 to September 3 as part of the international conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Abstracts can be submitted at this link: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst_4s2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3870 More details below. Thanks, Johan Söderberg, Maxigas, Adrian Smith * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Our track brings critical analysis to the plurality of collectives, spaces and futures that are assembling around increasingly accessible digital design and fabrication technologies. Computer integrated tools hold particular historical ironies and contradictions: early introduction threatened skills, livelihoods and identities amongst manufacturing communities – while they are celebrated today as enabling agency, identities and communities for makers. Both processes has been promoted as ’Industrial Revolutions’. STS has much to contribute to understanding, engaging and bridging digital fabrications. Conversely, apparent historical turnarounds in digital fabrication, with tools spilling into new collectives and spaces, offers an opportunity to interrogate STS theory and methodology. Fifty years ago, social ecologist Murray Bookchin, like other commentators welcomed a future in which collectives would own tools and organise production non-hierarchically around ‘liberatory technologies’. Does grassroots appropriation of digital fabrication in hackerspaces, makerspaces and amongst user groups online, mean his future for egalitarian tool-based creativity arrived? Or do digital fabrication futures reinforce the automation, flexible specialisation, and globalised outsourcing documented by David Noble in the 1980s, and that has been a driver for the technology amongst manufacturing strategists since then? How do the collectives and spaces pursuing these different futures intersect, contest, and co-exist? In analysing digital fabrications, we are particularly interested in the critical voices posing unsettling questions: * Who controls the platforms underpinning these activities and their connections, and how does this influence the spaces for peer production, and the terms for private appropriation? * What senses of humanity are invigorated, and which excluded, from the political imaginaries, utopias, dystopias, and ideologies embodied in digital fabrication technologies? * How does the materiality of digital fabrications connect to the values of sustainable developments? * Where does the figure of the hacker – forever opening-up technologies – lurk in these collectives and spaces; and what has hacker culture mobilised and been appropriated by these collectives? * When and where will future industrial conflicts arise: what are the political and economic relations at stake between these collectives, spaces and futures? We welcome papers that provide critical reviews, original empirical study, and theoretical development relevant to digital fabrications. -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub http://custodians.online Share this letter - read it in public - leave it in the printer. Share your writing - digitize a book - upload your files. Don't let our knowledge be crushed. Care for the libraries - care for the metadata - care for the backup. Water the ❀❀❀❀❀ - clean the volcanoes.

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Call for Application: Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship
by stoopt 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

*Call for Application: Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship* *Media and the Environment* *Description:* Media@McGill is a hub of interdisciplinary research, scholarship and public outreach on issues in media, technology and culture, located in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. To see the list of postdoctoral fellowships: <http://media.mcgill.ca/en/content/mediamcgill-postdoctoral-fellowships>. Media@McGill offers every year one Postdoctoral Fellowship to a promising scholar engaged in media-related research, as defined in Media@McGill’s mission statement <http://media.mcgill.ca/en/mission>. Fellows are provided with a workspace, and are expected to take an active role in the research activities and academic life of Media@McGill (participation in conferences, seminars, etc.). They may also have the possibility of teaching a course within the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill. *Eligibility: *The Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to both national and international scholars who have**completed their doctoral**degree in a university other than McGill no earlier than June 1, 2012. Candidates must have defended their dissertation and received their PhD by May 1, 2016. Fluency in English is essential; working knowledge of French is an asset. *Value and Duration: *The stipend for the Media@McGill Postdoctoral Fellowship is $45,000 CAD for 12 months (this includes a travel research stipend) beginning in September 2016. *Application Process Deadlines: *Media@McGill will be offering one Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2016-2017. *1.* In a cover letter, applicants must stipulate how their research is related to Media@McGill’s mission statement <http://media.mcgill.ca/en/mission> and Media@McGill’s 2016-17 theme: *Media and the Environment* <http://media.mcgill.ca/en/content/2012-2017-program-media-and-democracy#2016>. Applicants should also identify a potential faculty supervisor from the McGill Department of Art History and Communication Studies, who is a member of Media@McGill <http://media.mcgill.ca/en/members> and whose research is closely tied to that of the applicant. Please do not contact the potential supervisor at this stage. The following should be included in all statements of interest and be *sent in a single pdf* (*the application will not be accepted otherwise). *The documents’ order follows the list below: 1. a cover letter; 2. a research proposal (750 words); 3. a Curriculum Vitae (maximum 5 pages). *Deadline:* Completed statements of interest should be sent to sophie.toupin(a)mcgill.ca by *Friday, January 29, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. E.D.T.* *2.* Statements of interest will be reviewed by the Media@McGill potential supervisor, and candidates will be notified of results shortly after. If successful, the short-listed applicants will be asked to provide the following additional documents: 1. official copies of transcripts during graduate studies; 2. three letters of recommendation (one of which is by the potential Media@McGill faculty supervisor); 3. a writing sample (maximum 20 pages). *Deadline:* Completed**applications should be sent to sophie.toupin(a)mcgill.ca <mailto:[email protected]> by *Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. E.D.T.* Applications will be reviewed by Media@McGill’s Steering Committee, and candidates will be notified of results in early May 2016. For additional information, please contact sophie.toupin(a)mcgill.ca <mailto:[email protected]> For more info visit: http://media.mcgill.ca/en/postdoctoral_fellowship

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epub version
by fauno 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

hi, i made an epub version of issue #6, since i read mostly from my ebook reader and wanted to catch up. i'm sharing it here in case anyone finds it useful :) the plan is to make one per issue, though it requires considerable work (30 minutes correcting format! :P) epub: https://share.riseup.net/#J7t-UmJQL7Sezp9gBLq8wQ markdown: https://share.riseup.net/#4LfndDzti9ahqMEouYq7Dw html to markdown: `pandoc -t markdown REPLACE_WITH_URL > article.markdown` markdown to epub: `pandoc -o issue6.epub issue6.markdown` -- .oÓ)

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site under maintenance
by fauno 04 Jan '16

04 Jan '16

hi, i've noticed the site is under maintenance and it mentions the pdf versions are unavailable, but have you noticed the html versions point to an empty article? at least for issues #6 and #7 can i help? :) -- http://lainventoria.com.ar

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