The last 30 years has seen an increase in our understanding of the shift in society towards the digital age of networked production. The emergence of contemporary subjectivites, such as the ‘digital worker/cognitariat’ as well as generational demarcations such as the ‘digital native’, have received the attention of academics and those with a vested interest in understanding the potentiality of the present. These debates have often been framed inside the radical potential of unending and open knowledge production and its subsequent appropriation into capital.
But what are the material limits of the internet and any projected digital future? Can the internet really be decoupled from consumerism? What environmental factors exist that radically limit the expansion of the internet in real or utopian terms? How do we build a digital culture in the present, outside of the demands of growth and the waste of progress? What role could renewable energies play in the internet’s present or future? What possiblities exist for a ‘free’ internet inside the environmental constraints of the present?
This is a call for papers/provocations/contributions that seek to address these questions, a means to further explore the possiblity of both the present and future sustainability of digital culture.
Contribution formats-
Mini- 10 words(max)
Provocations- 500 words (max)
Essays- 2000-5000+ words
Contributions will be published across multiple media- as a finalised traditional book and ebook formats, and will be feely avaliable open sourse (post-publication), as well as across other retail possiblities, such as badges, posters, t-shirts etc.
Deadline: 1st July 2012
Contributions sent to email above.
