Digital cultures of California

This forthcoming issue of Convergence looks really interesting.

Special Issue on ‘Digital Cultures of California'
Guest editor: Julian Bleecker (Near Future Laboratory and University of Southern California)

This call invites submissions for a special issue related to digital cultures of California. Internationally, California is a phenomenon in terms of its relationship to creating, consuming and analyzing the era of digital technologies. From the legendary garage entrepreneurs, to the multi-billion dollar culture of venture capital, to stock back-dating scandals, to the epic exodus of California’s IT support staff during the Burning Man festival, this territory plays an important role in the political, cultural and economic underpinnings of digitally and network-mediated lives on a global scale.

Half of my brain trying to figure out if there's some piece of my end of cyberspace project that I can carve out and submit, and the other half is more sensibly telling me to get the Hell back to work on the book ms. This damn essay on paper spaces-- on how some interactions with paper are more architectural and spatial than merely personal (obviously I need to work on the language a little)-- is the last distraction I should allow myself.

[To the tune of Billy Idol, "Flesh for Fantasy," from the album "Rebel Yell".]

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