Amodern

Amodern Media, Culture, Poetics
http://amodern.net Amodern is a peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, culture, and poetics.

Its purpose is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary conversations about the role of media and technology in contemporary cultural practices. We are particularly interested in those topics that normally escape scrutiny, or are ignored or excluded for whatever reason. The journal is distinguished by its focus on poetics as a scholarly practice, with particular emphasis on the unruly ways that pe

ople deploy media and technology behind, beneath, and despite their instrumental functions. Against the grain of determinism, we hope to attract work that bears witness to media as complex assemblages of institutions, subjects, bodies, objects, and discourses. Amodern will publish two issues annually with the goal of eventually becoming a quarterly. Issues of the journal will be organized around specific topics and themes. Editors
Scott Pound, Lakehead University
Darren Wershler, Concordia University

Managing Editor
Michael Nardone, Concordia University

Advisory Board
Johanna Drucker, UCLA
Gary Genosko, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Lisa Gitelman, NYU
Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University (Emerita)
Brian Rotman, Ohio State University
Will Straw, McGill University

Editorial Board
Jeff Derksen, Simon Fraser University
Craig Dworkin, University of Utah
Lori Emerson, University of Colorado
Jonathan Finn, Wilfred Laurier University
John Maxwell, Simon Fraser University
Nick Montfort, MIT
Sianne Ngai, Stanford University
Bart Simon, Concordia University
Matt Soar, Concordia University

Announcing the publication of AMODERN 12: COUNTERTYPE, edited by Andrew Amstutz:https://amodern.net/issues/amodern-12-co...
05/03/2025

Announcing the publication of AMODERN 12: COUNTERTYPE, edited by Andrew Amstutz:

https://amodern.net/issues/amodern-12-countertype/

The issue features the following contributions:

Amodern 12: Countertype
Typography, Alternative Print Technologies, and Everyday Ephemera
Andrew Amstutz

The Subversive Print Nianhua
Haihong Li

A Truly Modern Media
Avant-garde Visual Culture and the Printed Character in the 1930s Shanghai Pictorial Magazine 時代漫畫 Modern Sketch
Kelly W.S. Ritter

The Lead Letters of Nasta’līq
Experiments with Movable Type and Debates over Modernity in Hyderabad
Andrew Amstutz

The Most Important Book Never Written
A Media History of Saul Kripke’s Scholarly Samizdat
Margie Borschke

Unreasonable Characters
Tyler Shoemaker

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Many thanks, first of all, to the editor and contributors for their excellent work in this issue, and to the Amodern community for reading and engaging with this work in review and in their research. An additional thanks to artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer for allowing Amodern to use documentation from his immersive typographical work “Encode/Decode” (2020) to image this issue.

Announcing the publication of Amodern 11: Body and/as Procedure, edited by Jane Malcolm and Sarah Dowling:https://amoder...
11/10/2023

Announcing the publication of Amodern 11: Body and/as Procedure, edited by Jane Malcolm and Sarah Dowling:

https://amodern.net/issues/amodern-11/

The issue features the following contributions:

Amodern 11: Body and/as Procedure
Jane Malcolm and Sarah Dowling

Assimilating the Arts:
On Poetry and Difference in Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit
Keegan Cook Finberg

Ono Optics:
Toward a Theory of the Perfectly Unreadable
Jane Malcolm

The Danger of the Situation
or, The Indexical Present of Apology in the Artwork of Adrian Piper and Dr. Vaginal Davis
Bellamy Mitchell

Adrian Piper:
Procedure, Intimate Inquiry, Archives
Julia Polyck-O’Neill

Quipu Procedure
Jena Osman

Poetic Dianoia:
Epistemic Injustice and CA Conrad’s (Soma)tics
Stephen Ross

She Ripples Happily:
Coding Hormone Care in Porpentine Charity Heartscape’s With Those We Love Alive
Julie Funk

World Without an I:
Bernadette Mayer’s Procedural Lyric

Spell and Survival Techniques:
Dreams as Procedure in Lyn Hejinian and Jackie Want’s Poetry
Margaret Ronda

Edited by Jane Malcolm and Sarah Dowling

Call for Papers – Amodern 13: Affective Signals: Sounding the Curatorial, edited by Klara du Plessis and Jason Camlot. h...
16/06/2023

Call for Papers – Amodern 13: Affective Signals: Sounding the Curatorial, edited by Klara du Plessis and Jason Camlot.

https://amodern.net/contribute/

How is sound curated? And how does sound affect concepts and practices of curation? What are the affordances of sound recordings in material and/or digital formats for acts of curation? What are the political and ethical considerations of making archival sounds public? How might curated audio collections make us feel, and why? Hinging on the distinction between sound as a vibrational, audibly perceivable entity and signal as a representational entity of that sound made manifest through recording and its preservation, these fundamental questions amplify the tension between sound as abstract and immaterial, and signal as artifactual and discernible. This CFP invites you to explore concepts and examples of sound and their signals in relation to acts of curation, welcoming contributions to a special issue of the refereed, open access journal Amodern entitled, “Affective Signals: Sounding the Curatorial.”

Updated CFP for AMODERN 12: Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstu...
09/02/2023

Updated CFP for AMODERN 12: Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstutz.

Please share widely !
https://amodern.net/contribute/

CFP for AMODERN 12: Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstutz.Pleas...
13/06/2022

CFP for AMODERN 12: Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstutz.

Please share widely !
https://amodern.net/contribute/

04/04/2022

We have a new Call for Papers up on the site today, for Amodern 12: Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstutz. Description below, link in the comments – please share widely:

Amodern 12: Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution
Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstutz

What is the relationship of alternative print technologies to revolution? What revolutionary political opportunities and cultural imaginaries are made possible by non-typographic printing? In order to answer these questions, this CFP is interested in papers to join a special issue in Amodern on Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution that explores how non-typographic technologies have shaped cultural and political practices around the world. This special issue will expand upon Amodern's interdisciplinary focus on media, culture, and poetics by rethinking assumptions about the relationship of print to technological, political, and social revolution(s). In particular, we call for paper submissions that explore the dynamic interplay between revolution(s), broadly, construed, and non-typographic printing in those parts of the world where typographic printing was considered ill-suited to local writing systems and script cultures, including South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. We are interested in papers that investigate the relationship of non-typographic publishing networks to revolution from the early modern era to the present and how alternative print technologies beyond typography challenges assumptions about mass print culture. In particular, we encourage submissions that explore how marginalized communities deploy print technology and graphic media in unexpected and subversive ways.

Scholars from Area Studies, Art History and Design, the History of Science and Technology, STS, Media Studies, History, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Comparative Literature, among other fields, are welcome to apply. Scholars of all ranks are encouraged to apply. WE ENCOURAGE APPLICATIONS FROM EARLY-CAREER SCHOLARS (ABD PhD students through Assistant Professors).

Please send abstracts to:

tsmullaney [at] stanford [dot] edu
amamstutz [at] ualr [dot] edu
amodernjournal [at] gmail [dot] edu

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