Transformations Journal

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The Kingdom of L’Anse-Saint-Jean This article in issue 35 examines the strange case of Quebecs King Denys I. [...] Trafficking the Earth In this paper in Issue 33, explore the legacies of copper and nitrate mining in the driest place on Earth: the Atacama Desert. [...] Black Gold Lisa FitzGeralds article in Issue 32 examines the material aesthetics of oil. [...] Affect in Virtual Reality This paper in Issue 31 discusses the VR works of British duo Gibson / Martelli. [...] Technological Fantasies of Nao In this paper from Issue 29, Stina Hasse Jørgensen and Oliver Tafdrup discuss humanoid robots and otherness. [...] Previous Issue

Issue 34: Inhuman Algorithms May 13, 2020Comments Off on Issue 34: Inhuman Algorithms Algorithms are integral to a digital, networked, automated society. Thrown into the public spotlight by a certain high profile search engine, algorithms are increasingly recognised to exercise agency in practices such as governance, surveillance, online personalisation, medicine, design, high frequency trading, credit scoring and plagiarism. Computational machines make decisions about things, people, places and experiences, and humans learn to address algorithms. Algorithms have inhuman capacities. They do not become distracted, tired, impatient or emotional. At the same time the algorithm’s inhuman abilities can be understood as a desirable improvement on human skills. Algorithms are inhuman forces that bring social, political, [...] Current Issue

Issue 35: Anomalous / Autonomous July 30, 2021Comments Off on Issue 35: Anomalous / Autonomous Along with established national states, the planet has a scatter of anomalous and/or autonomous territories whose existence is performed in various ways. These include officially recognised archaic micro-jurisdictions (such as those operating in the Channel Islands, off the west coast of Normandy, France); self-proclaimed micronations in various regions; territories established offshore in efforts to escape national control; rhetorical utopias that have no material existence; and territories created in traditional and new media that intersect with material reality in various ways. These entities are significant for affronting the fixity of nation states and their boundaries through their détournement of various aspects [...] Current Calls for Papers

Issue 37: Orbiting Otherwise: Alternative Approaches to Satellites.

Abstracts (200-400 words) are due 15^th November 2021, with a view to submit articles by 1^st March 2022.

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About the Journal Transformations is an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed electronic journal addressing the transformative processes of new technologies and mediating practices that change the way we think, feel and interact with others both in a contemporary and historical sense. We welcome writing from the perspective of cultural theory, critical philosophy, aesthetics, media studies and other humanities approaches. Issue Archive2021 Issue No. 35 – Anomalous/Autonomous2020 Issue No. 34 – Inhuman Algorithms2019 Issue No. 33 – Mineral Transformation and Resource Extraction: Pasts, Presents and Futures2018 Issue No. 32 – What Can Moving Images Do? An Ecological Thinking of the Moving Image2018 Issue No. 31 – Technoaffect: Bodies, Machines, Media2017 Issue No. 30 – Concepts for Action in the Environmental Arts2017 Issue No. 29 — Social Robots: Human-Machine Configurations2016 Issue No. 28 — The Ruin, the Future2016 Issue No. 27 — Thing Theory, Material Culture, and Object-Oriented Ontology2015 Issue No. 26 — Thinking in the Arts-Science Nexus2014 Issue No. 25 — New Immaterialities2014 Issue No. 24 — The Other Western2013 Issue No. 23 — The Internet as Politicizing Instrument2012 Issue No. 22 — Hyperaesthetic Culture2012 Issue No. 21 — Rethinking the Seasons: New Approaches to Nature2011 Issue No. 20 — Slow Media2011 Issue No. 19 — Rancière: Politics, Art Sense2010 Issue No. 18 — The Face and Technology2009 Issue No. 17 — Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics2008 Issue No. 16 — Democracy Under Fire2007 Issue No. 15 — Walter Benjamin and the Virtual2007 Issue No. 14 — Accidental Environments2006 Issue No. 13 — Making Badlands2005 Issue No. 11 — Edges and Centres2005 Issue No. 12 — Rethinking Regionality2005 Issue No. 10 — Media Communities2005 Issue No. 09 — Independent Article2004 Issue No. 08 — Regions of Sexuality2003 Issue No. 07 — New Media Technologies2003 Issue No. 06 — Gender In Asia2002 Issue No. 05 — Regional Landscapes2002 Issue No. 04 — Independent Article2002 Issue No. 03 — Cultural Memory2002 Issue No. 02 — Fleeing The City2000 Issue No. 01 — Regional Imaginary

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