{"id":202,"date":"2016-07-11T04:22:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trespass.network\/?p=202"},"modified":"2016-07-11T04:22:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T04:22:46","slug":"cfp-anarchist-technologies-repair-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sindominio.net\/trespass\/en\/2016\/07\/11\/cfp-anarchist-technologies-repair-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anarchist Technologies Repair Manual
\nfixing the world through resistance and repair<\/strong><\/p>\n

CFP: Call for Papers for an Edited Book
\n<\/p>\n

Anarchism is experiencing a renaissance in locations all across the
\nworld. Facilitated by information technologies, new anarchist
\ncommunities are forming and more established ones are gaining greater
\nrecognition. The decentralized, non-hierarchical, peer-to-peer nature of
\nthe relationships and social bonds which characterize these communities
\nhas inspired a recent surge of interest within both scholarly geographic
\nand activist circles. Articles, conference sessions, and special issues
\nof geographic journals have all appeared in recent years provoking
\ndebate and research within scholar-activism. Meanwhile, on the streets,
\nthese social forms which have recently become a subject of geographic
\nstudy are broadening their scope, coalescing to form non-hierarchical
\nmovements which directly enable more equitable resource distribution
\nwhile demanding an end to structural violence.<\/p>\n

Anarchism in its most basic form is the theory and practice of
\nresisting, organizing, living and creating worlds without domination.
\nAnarchist practice of resistance is twofold: firstly, fighting the range
\nof exploitations and oppressions imposed by nation-states, corporations,
\ninternational oligarchies and other systems of domination. Secondly,
\napplying techniques of self-critique, acknowledging that the exercise of
\npower results in an internalization of oppressive mechanisms, and
\nfighting these as well. Organizing in spaces where the state does not
\nprovide reliable basic services such as health care, education, or
\naccess to food and clean water, collectives of people practicing
\nhorizontal decision-making work to meet basic needs and repair their
\ncommunities.<\/p>\n

Within the domain of information technologies anarchism has also driven
\nprojects to protect populations from structural violence by creating
\nsecurity infrastructures which shelter their communications from
\nsurveillance. Rather than approaching internet surveillance with a
\n\u00abnothing to hide\u00bb attitude, anarchists understand governments as
\noppressive institutions; based on an arcane calculus of power justified
\nas morality, governments are liable to arbitrarily categorize any number
\nof activities sanctioned one day as prohibited the next. As people
\nliving on lands that have been privatized by capitalist property
\nrelations backed with state force, we are constantly subject to the
\nwhimsical decisions of those in power about who will constitute the
\noppressed class, be that on gender, class, racial, sexual, ethnic or
\nspiritual lines.<\/p>\n

Information technologies have largely facilitated communication across
\nmany regions of the Earth, inspiring new ways of approaching problems,
\nincreasing access to resources and forming a new space for radical
\nsubjectivities to emerge. With the exponential expansion of information
\ntechnologies over the past decades we have seen the practices of
\nresisting violence and oppression change in spontaneous, dramatic and
\ncreative ways that have captured the attention and inspired the
\nimagination of people all around the world. We need not describe here
\nthe manifold ways in which the networked world enables collaborations
\nand intersections only dreamed about in the past, but it is important to
\nbe reminded of the material base it is built upon. Alluded to in the
\nsaying \u00abthere is no cloud, it’s just other people’s computers,\u00bb data
\ncenters share with popular movements the fact that there are actual
\nphysical locations where they exist. Counterposed to this, the
\nnon-physicality of internet communications creates a theoretical and
\npractical space like none we have known before.<\/p>\n

However, alongside growth of information technologies it is important to
\nalso recognize that the creation of these technologies themselves are
\nsubject to the often blood-drenched flows of capitalist commodity
\nproduction and distribution. From the war-zones of coltan ore-mining
\noperations in the Congo to the sweatshop conditions of the Shenzhen
\nassembly line, the construction of the microchip leaves in its wake a
\nfallout of both human and environmental destruction. The use of these
\ndevices enables massive industries to capture billions of dollars even
\nwith business models based solely on metadata, creating a massive
\nconcentration of wealth and new lines of exclusion. And finally when the
\nmachines are discarded, toxins are released damaging and transforming
\nboth the living and non-living environment.<\/p>\n

This book requests proposals for chapters exploring anarchism in both
\ntheory and practice as it relates to all aspects of information
\ntechnologies for audiences that include the general public, activists
\nand early career scholars. While the call is open, preference will be
\ngiven to proposals for chapters that specifically focus on anarchism and
\ninformation technologies within repair (in all metaphorical and material
\naspects), security, communications, organizing resistance movements,
\naccess to hardware and approaches to dealing with the destruction of
\nboth the human and more-than-human that occurs from creation to wasting.<\/p>\n

Please submit abstracts of up to 350 words, a short bio of up to 200
\nwords and any other pertinent information to the editors by July 1st,
\n2016. Authors will be informed of selection by September 1st, 2016.
\nFirst drafts of chapters will be due February 28, 2017, then following
\nrevisions, a final publication date will be around September 1st, 2017.
\nPlease feel free to contact the editors with any questions.<\/p>\n

Contact information:<\/p>\n

Erin Araujo: ela120 mun ca
\nBill Budington: bill inputoutput io<\/p>\n

About the Editors:<\/p>\n

Erin Araujo is a PhD Candidate in the department of Geography at the
\nMemorial University of Newfoundland in Canada as well as a member of the
\nCambalache Collective, a money-less economy located in San Cristobal de
\nlas Casas, Chiapas as well as other parts of Mexico. She has resided in
\nChiapas for around nine years, is a life long anarchist and artist and
\nhas participated in a number of resistance movements throughout the
\nAmericas.<\/p>\n

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