[Nettime-bold] Call for Submission to Sarai Reader 02

[geert lovink <geert@desk.nl>]

Call for Submission to Sarai Reader 02
Word Limit : 2000-4000 words
Last date of Submission - 5th December, 2001
Respond with ideas, immediately, to : shuddha@sarai.net

TO ALL PEOPLE IN THE SARAI READER LIST COMMUNITY (READERS/WRITERS/LURKERS)

Dear Readers,

As you may be aware, this list grew out of a need for a forum to discuss the
contents of the Sarai Reader 01;The Public Domain, published in February
2001. One of the key factors that will ensure that the list continues to
have
an active life will be the publication of the Sarai Reader 02.  We, at Sarai
would like to invite you all to contribute to the content of the second
Sarai
Reader. Just as this list grew out of the first Reader, we would like the
second (and subsequent) Reader/s, to grow, in large measure, out of the
list.

This time, the reader will focus on the theme of 'City:Space/Flow'. This
thematic focus has been chosen to highlight Sarai's engagement with urban
space,media,culture & politics.

We choose to characterize city spaces, not just as metropolitan
agglomerates,
but as   circuits and  concentrations of people, built forms, data, media
practices, transports, regulations and transgressions around space and
habitation, and as sites of resistance and invention as well as provocations
for the explorations of visible and invisible social realities.

THEMES

We are interested in the way cities connect to each other in global space,
in
migrations and sites of marginality, in histories of neighbourhoods and in
investigations of urban cultural practices, city ecologies and in accounts
or
analyses of media/technological forms that arise and thrive in city spaces.

We are particularly interested in accounts of spaces where media forms and
urban life intersect - such as cinema halls, cybercafes, video game
parlours,
electronic goods markets, and entertainment/leisure districts in cities.

We are also looking for :

evocative reports of everyday city life from across the globe. What is it
like to wake up in Mexico city, what are the fears stalking the subways of
New York in the wake of 9/11, what does the din of construction sound like
in
Shanghai, and what are the narratives of war that collect in the Afghan
refugee settlements in Peshawar or Karachi?  Writing of quality and passion
on questions such as these will find acceptance in the second Sarai Reader

We are interested in :

first person accounts, or in-depth conversations with city folk - say an
interview with a call centre worker in New Delhi, or the first person
narrative of a day trader in Singapore or Mumbai.

in debates around media practices, surveillance, intellectual property
rights,  free software and forms of cultural and technological intervention
that challenge dominant media practices.

in 'little histories' - of radio, of  interventions on the internet, of film
posters, of street photography, and film viewing.

We are also interested in publishing brief (1000-1500) word profiles of new
media/urban culture practice and research spaces like Sarai elsewhere in the
world.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submissions may be scholarly, journalistic, or literary - or a mix of these,
in the form of essays, papers, interviews or diary entries. All submission,
unless specifically, solicited must be in English only.

Word Limit : 1500 - 4000 words

Submissions must be sent by e mail in rich text format (rtf) or star-office
documents. Articles may be accompanied by black and white photographs or
drawings submitted in a jpeg format.

We urge all writers, to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, (CMS) in terms
of
footnotes, annotations and references, for more details about the CMS,
please
see the Florida State University web page on CMS  style documentation  at
http://www.fsu.edu/~library/guides/chicago.html

All contributions should be accompanied by a three - four line text
introducing the author.

All submissions will be read by the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader
02 before the final selection is made. The editorial collective reserves the
right not to publish any material sent to it for publication in the Sarai
Reader on stylistic or editorial grounds. All contributors will be informed
of the decisions of the editorial collective vis a vis their contribution by
December 15, 2001.

Copyright for all accepted contributions will remain with the authors, but
Sarai reserves indefinitely,  the right to place any of the material
accepted
for publication on the public domain in print or electronic forms, and on
the
internet.

Accepted submissions will not be paid for, in order help keep the public
domain free of commerce, but authors are guaranteed a wide international
readership. The Reader will be published in print, distributed in India and
internationally, and will also be uploaded in a pdf form on to the Sarai
website.

All contributors whose work has been accepted for publication will receive
two copies of the Reader.

Word Limit : 1500 - 4000 words
Last date for submission - December 5th 2001.
(but please write as soon as possible to shuddha@sarai.net  with a brief
outline of what you want to write about - this helps in designing the
content
of the reader)
We expect to have the reader published by mid February 2002.

please send in your responses to :
shuddha@sarai.net


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