Hi all<div><br /></div><div>Congratulations to Johan and Alessandro for what looks like a really fantastic issue - I'm not just saying that, the articles all look really interesting; looking forward to reading them on the beach! ;-)<div>cheers</div><div><br /></div><div>Mathieu</div><div><br /></div><div>ps. So I will do ACS, Historical Materialism... CITASA?<br /><br /><span>On 07/23/12, <b class="name">Johan Söderberg </b> <johan.soderberg@sts.gu.se> wrote:</span><blockquote cite="mid:407D780F3E26B94EA7B14343F9986C7C815FF947@gu-mbx04.ad.gumail.local" class="iwcQuote" style="border-left: 1px solid #00F; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 0;" type="cite"><div class="mimepart text html"><span dir="ltr"><p>
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</p><div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Bio/Hardware Hacking”: a new special issue of the Journal of Peer
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Production is now published - <a href="http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/" target="1">
http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/</a><br />
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During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with <br />
software and computers. This is changing with the surge of synthetic <br />
biology, fablabs and hackerspaces, all of which suggests the wider <br />
diffusion of hacking practices and hacker politics. Hardware development <br />
and biological science are about to be infused with the same kind of <br />
contestations and contradictions that already characterize software <br />
hacking. This is because hackers are not simply innovating new <br />
technology, but are at the same time discovering new ways of engaging <br />
with the world. The issue highlights how hacking practices are inscribed <br />
in and shaped by the cultural and political contexts in which the <br />
hackers find themselves, with implications for the ways hacker politics <br />
are framed.<br />
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The special issue is curated by Alessandro Delfanti and Johan <br />
Söderberg. It includes four research papers and two invited comments:<br />
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Denisa Kera, Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia: Connecting Science and <br />
Community with Open Data, Kits and Protocols<br />
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Maxigas, Hacklabs and Hackerspaces - Tracing Two Genealogies<br />
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Sara Tocchetti, DIYbiologists as ‘Makers’ of Personal Biologies: How <br />
MAKE Magazine and Maker Faires Contribute in Constituting Biology as a <br />
Personal Technology<br />
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Paolo Magaudda, How to make a “Hackintosh”. A Journey into the <br />
“Consumerization” of Hacking Practices and Culture<br />
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Morgan Meyer, Build Your Own Lab: Do-it-yourself Biology and the Rise <br />
of Citizen Biotech-Economies<br />
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Mitch Altman, Hacking at the Crossroad - US Military Funding of <br />
Hackerspaces<br />
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Feel free to tweet, blog, share, comment the content of this special <br />
issue. We hope it will be a good starting point for further studies of <br />
the spreading of hacking practices outside the software field.<br />
<br />
Finally, we take advantage of this email to invite you to attend the <br />
panel we will chair, together with Eric Deibel, at the 4S/EASST <br />
Conference in Copenhagen in October. It is titled “Hacking STS - <br />
bio-hacking, open hardware development, and hackerspaces”, and will be <br />
another space to discuss the topics of this special issue.<br />
<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Alessandro and Johan</span></font></div>
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</p></span></div></blockquote>--<br signature="separator" />****<br />Dr Mathieu O'Neil<br />Adjunct Research Fellow<br />Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute<br />College of Arts and Social Science<br />The Australian National University<br />email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au<br />web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php</div></div>