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In 1998, M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture was devised by David Marshall as an online publishing project for a new media culture honours course at the University of Queensland. The journal was intended as an open-access, scholarly intervention in and forum for debates surrounding media and culture with a strong desire to cross between the academic and the popular. This year, M/C Journal celebrates its tenth anniversary, and in this special issue we ask: what is the face of publishing today?

Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing collective in critical and cultural theory.

Open Humanities Press journals are fully peer reviewed, scholarly publications that have been chosen by OHP's editorial advisory board for their outstanding contribution to contemporary theory.

OHP's journals are independent, published under open access licences and free of charge to readers and authors alike.

A grassroots response to the crisis in scholarly publishing in the humanities, Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought freely available worldwide.

visit http://openhumanitiespress.org for more details and to see their included publications

some Hakim Bey & related links gathered from the MLA forums

Hakim Bey's website - hosts his articles including the well known Temporary Autonomous Zone. The Ayahuasca Reading is interesting, especially since it sounds like it was written in the late 1940s / 1950s? at least written about events during that period. it was originally appeared in the Psychedelic Review in 1965 and Hakim Bey read a reprint of it from the Psychozoic Press on a New York radio program in 1994. interesting since Ayahuasca has become 'flavour of the year' so to speak, with even hollywood stars heading off to South America to experience it.

Rak Razam, a journalist from Australia, recorded his experiences in the video below
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3a3nt_rakaya-soul

Rak:aya soul
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Robert Anton Wilson's obituary by Peter Lamborn Wilson (aka Hakim Bey)

"Moors of Holy Ireland, we must all learn Basque" - an interview with Hakim Bey by Sasha Miltsov. they talk about the future, how things seem to be repeating themselves, how "attitudes are informed by reformism. They are not informed by a critique of capitalism or even of technology". that "that symbolic action and symbolic discourse is NOT Action!", about artists and their popularity and influence on real estate prices, and about "the idea of separatism and secession", in particular in relation to America.

"So America is isolated economically: we don't produce anything here anymore – we cant be self-sufficient in terms of industry. We don't make shoes here; we don't make umbrellas, pencils. We make entertainment and information. We don't even make the fucking computers! We produce the ideas that occupy the computers. That's why artists are so important right now – it's one of the few things that we actually produce. So the arts are hot, some artists are successful – this whole area around here is full of artists, and they drove the real-estate prices up. So, now you can't move into this county for less then 250,000 dollars. Thanks to the artists! You wonder why people get angry at artists – it's not our fault – we're just looking for low rent but the real-estate developers are following us, sniffing our butts wherever we go to find out where the next beautiful cheap real-estate is going to be ..."

The SALA-MANCA GROUP is a group of independent Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields: performance, video, installation & new media since 2000. Sala-manca's works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts and with the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues.

TechGnosis maillist website
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-Philip K. Dick-
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http://www.maybelogic.org
http://www.maybelogic.net

http://edge.org/

http://www.techgnosis.com - Erik Davis' site

http://www.undergrowth.org

http://www.barrelfullofmonkeys.org

http://www.entheo.net/ - entheogenesis Australia 2007 conference

http://www.docquan.com/lib_dead.html - an online collection / library of interesting books

Sydney electronic rock band Super Massive wins Best Alternative Artist Award at MusicOz 2007, for their soon-to-be-released song "Fists".

Sophie, the Institute's first piece of software, is designed for reading and writing next-generation electronic books. Sophie will facilitate the easy construction of documents that are designed to live on the network and to use multimedia and time in ways that are currently difficult, if not impossible.

Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies is a biannually published, refereed journal. The journal covers the studies of music sciences, together with the studies of music and sound in the disciplines of humanities, social sciences, cognitive sciences, medical and engineering sciences. Our aim is to establish a wide range of interdisciplinary platform for the scholars studying on music and sound.

Radical Musicology is a peer-reviewed online journal produced in the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University (UK). It was established to provide a forum for progressive thinking across the whole field of musical studies, and encourages work that draws on any and all relevant discipinary and interdisciplinary prespectives.

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music is Indian Summer by Big Bud

I went along to the Sarai Independent Fellows 2006 workshops last weekend (26-27/08) @ Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi. I missed the first two days sessions, but here is a slideshow video of some of the saturday & sunday sessions. it was really interesting - both the presentations and the discussions afterwards. some sessions were in Hindi so I couldn't follow as easily. there were a wide range of projects though - art, music, urban issues. hopefully they'll link to some of the full papers on the sarai.net website. it was a great way to get another insight into life and goings on in India and related places.

photos @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aliak_com/tags/saraiifellows2006

http://ifellows2006.wordpress.com

http://www.sarai.net

Celebrate the opening night of the 4th SOOB Festival with the knowledge that a public holiday is the next day! Below are some of the highlights of the SOOB 2006 program for Tuesday, August 15. For more information, visit the website @ http://www.straightoutofbrisbane.com

Going West is coordinated by the Arts Team within Waitakere City Council, with programme content designed by local resident and bookseller Murray Gray.

When Going West began nine years ago, it was the Auckland region's first writers' festival. Its focus is on the writers, thinkers and performers from New Zealand and the Pacific past and present, established and emerging. Since its inception in 1996 it has attracted over 300 writers and performers to take part.

Going West takes place in September over a two week period across various venues in Waitakere City. View information on the festival's range of events.

Igloo Magazine is an (online) abstract electronic music magazine publishing articles about current, classic and upcoming music from around the globe. Our mission is to consistently create an information resource about electronic music featuring several articles in our Newswire, Reviews, Profiles, Features and Top-10 categories.

The Man Booker Prize 2005

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents the very best in contemporary fiction. One of the world

The Program and triple j have joined forces and are calling across the country for all young folk, 25 and under, with some previous radio/ media experience, to join the J Arts Crew and become a paid part-time Arts Reporter! A reporter will be appointed from each State and Territory, to be mentored by a producer at triple j. Once appointed reporters will come together to undergo intensive broadcast training before being sent out to taste-test the arts far and wide. visit http://www.theprogram.net.au/jArtsCrewECard/ for more details

a list of women who think and write about the Internet, mostly from an academic view

Discover Sticky, a shop devoted to zines and artist books. Situated in a subway underpass in Melbourne, Australia, Sticky provides an outlet for a wide range of artist books/zines, c.d.

Mindjack magazine is concerned with the blending of technology and society, the organic with the synthetic

LABS is a comprehensive database of abstracts of Ph.d, Masters and MFA theses in the emerging intersection between art, science and technology. Persons who have received advanced degress in arts (visual, sound, performing, text), computer sciences, the sciences and/or technology which in some way investigate philosophical, historical, critical or applications of science or technology to the arts are invited to submit an abstract of their thesis for publication consideration in this database. visit http://leonardolabs.pomona.edu/ for details and to submit your work