CFP: MOBILE TRASH (JANUARY 2016)
EDITED BY MÉL HOGAN & ANDREA ZEFFIRO
For this special issue of Wi: Journal of Mobile Media [wi.mobilities.ca], we are gathering contributions that address the idea of ‘mobile trash.’
The
intention of this issue is to reconfigure the concepts of ‘mobile’ and
‘mobilities’ in relation to trash, by its various definitions and
formations, from new materialism, feminism, media ecology, media
archaeology, and queer frameworks.
We’re
especially interested in short pieces (2500 words) and creative
interventions that explore mobile trash as pollution, fumes, compost,
satellites, e-waste, toxins, bodies, drones, viruses, hacks, landfill,
etc. We welcome pieces that poetically engage the politics of trash and
speak to its borders, transitions, movements, materialities, shifts,
contagions, ecologies, permutations, mutations, and invisible
transferences.
The online issue goes live January 2016 and will be accompanied by a print-on-demand issue.
If interested, please send us a 300 word abstract to: info@technotrash.org
Include your name, personal URL, and title of submission.
TIMELINE
/ Deadline for abstracts: Nov 1, 2014.
/ Notification: Feb 1, 2015.
/ Final submissions due: Sept 1, 2015.
/ Issue goes live: January 1, 2016.
Wi:
journal of mobile media (pronounced wī) was founded in 2006 as in-house
publication of the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN) and has since
operated under the aegis of the Mobile Media Lab. The Lab has two nodes,
one in Montreal (www.mobilities.ca) and one in Toronto (www.mobilemedialab.ca).
Wi is an open- access peer-reviewed experimental journal. The mandate
of the journal is to create an interdisciplinary international dialogue
for scholars to explore the “term” mobilities in all of its many
manifestations, although the history of the journal indicates an
emphasis on the connection of mobilities research to media studies, the
media arts and communications. We are particularly interested in
publishing works that use media (images, sounds, animations) as a major
component of their articles, although this is not a requirement.http://wi.
