[Reader-list] Call for submissions: THE STATE vol II 'Speculative Geographies'

[rahel aima]

*Call for submissions: THE STATE Vol II: Speculative Geographies*

*Vol II of THESTATE* is premised on cultural imagination and futures of
place. We invite you to speculate and translate the future’s visualisations
of form and format. By using situational spectation, tactile sensations,
personal anticipation and architectural justifications, we seek a
contextual understanding of today’s socialscape as a means to inform the
landscapes of tomorrow.

*WE ARE THINKING* about desire lines, sensory cartographies,
(de)militiarised urbanities, appropriated circuit-spheres, cyborgific
insects, voyeuristic reality media, drone soap operas, scent trails &
olofactory claustrophobia, paleontology of the Singularity, subterranean
netherworlds, dystopian forest replenishing, anti-civ anarchism and the
‘green scare,’ transhumanist unicorns, gonzo ethnography, decolonising the
Internet of things, apocalyptic love letters, bioart, salvagepunk, the
symphonies of credit, robot liberation struggles, ruptured temporalities,
botiliciousness, fifth dimensions, the coming superabundance of screens,
and the colonisation of Mars.

*WE WELCOME* submissions around the theme of ‘Speculative Geographies,’ and
encourage experimentation with form, transmedia, and (web)site-specific
installations; critical texts, interrogative narratives, slow journalism,
sensuous net-artwork, moving or still images, psychogeographic mappings,
place hacking, manifestos and conversations, among others. Because of the
nature of THESTATE, please do not feel restricted by the above; please feel
free to alternatively submit a wall of text.

*THE STATE* is a journal and sociohistorical forum. It investigates the
space between print and audio-visual experiences and their transition to
mediated online forms; transgressive cultural criticism and the sensuous
architecture of this “printernet.”

*PLEASE SEND* your submissions, along with a brief bio, to *info at thestate.ae
*, by *APRIL 30th, 2012*. We ask that you submit new works, but are willing
to reprint pieces that have not been published in English; however, we are
unable to translate ourselves. We are open to pitches, but please get in
touch well before the deadline. Commissioned pieces will receive up to
US$500.

*http://thestate.ae*
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Many thanks,
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rahel aima
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