Please feel free to distribute the following to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Dear Friends, Autonomedia is preparing an anthology of essays and possible visual material for a book (and electronic media) on the issues surrounding communications, intellectual property, work, and new information technologies. We anticipate a publication date at the end of this year. Among the many topics we hope to address: The anti-copyright movement State information-control mechanisms "Plunderphonics" and sound sampling Immediatism Plagiarism Cypherpunk and crypto anarchy Hacking and cracking The politics of "academic freedom" Virtual prisons and digital leashes Class struggle on the high-tech front Phone sex and computer porn Obsolescent media and "product" The politics of mail art and free radio Future tech Network TV, cable, and narrowcasting Laws and borders, globalism Aesthetics of appropriation after post-modernism Electronic banking, digital cash, the end of "money" Visual imaging and electronic pictography Virtual reality and electronic spectacularity Data piracy: computer viruses, high tech luddism, etc. Anonymity and digital identities Genetics as commercial medium Primitivism and the anti-technology movement The legacy and future of phone phreaking Body politics, angelic capital, mormons in space Robots and computerized industrial production Media ecology and media diets Surveillance and popular defense "Information economy" Cybergnosis This list is meant to be suggestive, not exhaustive. Query us with your suggestions as soon as possible. We hope to make contact with all possible contributors by the start of summer, with a final deadline of October 1, 1993, for submissions. Wherever feasible, please send submissions on computer disk (ASCII or any word processing format in any platform) as well as by paper copy. We appreciate any help you may be able to offer in this endeavor. AUTONOMEDIA COLLECTIVE P.O. Box 568 Williamsburg Station Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568 USA email: jafhc@cunyvm.cuny.edu or dmandl@shearson.com Fax: 718-387-6471 --------------------------------------------------------------------