issue doi:10.15307/fcj.30 introduction doi:10.15307/fcj.30.222.2019 Introduction by Lone Bertelsen, Issue Editor. We owe each other the indeterminate. We owe each other everything (Harney and Moten, 2013: 20). … What must remain incalculable is the very question of the being of relation. (Erin Manning, this issue) The theme of the issue: Incalculable Experience, emerged in encounter with […]
Erin Manning SenseLab, Concordia University, Canada It cannot be denied that the university is a place of refuge, and it cannot be accepted that the university is a place of enlightment. (Moten and Harney, 2009: 145) Nothing About Us Without Us! (Charlton, 2000) Universities have a long history. The mantra of the universitas – ‘the […]
Maria Hynes The Australian National University, Australia But we won’t stand corrected. Moreover, incorrect as we are there’s nothing wrong with us. (Harney and Moten, 2013: 20) In their consideration of the contribution of academic labour to what they call the ‘social reproduction of conquest denial’, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten isolate a number of […]
Erin Manning SenseLab, Concordia University, Canada Two phrases haunt my thinking. The first comes from Fred Moten: all black life is neurodiverse life. It might also have been black life is always neurodiverse life. The second is approximation of proximity. The feeling is that the ambiguity of memory in the first has a connection to […]
Glen Fuller University of Canberra, Australia Researchers concerned with networks have engaged with a variety of conceptual and technical problems and areas of interest. Fibreculture’s key focus has been any and all manifestations of network culture, with a particular interest in media. Our interest in scholarly publishing – both this journal, books and experimental forms […]
Susan Ballard School of the Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong Disappearance At the opening of the temporary Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2010 there was a room curtained off from all the others. Looking behind the curtain I found two chairs, headphones, a silently meditative voice, a highly-reflective dark blue leaning-yet-standing wooden panel, […]
Andrew Goodman La Trobe University, Australia What you listen to or what you’re reading is still moving and still living. It’s still forming. (Harney and Moten, 2013: 107) Music charms us, even though its beauty consists only in the harmonics of numbers and in a calculation that we are not aware of, but which the […]