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Fibreculture Journal Issue 1 : The Politics of Networks
Editorial - Issue 1 - The Politics of Networks
Andrew Murphie
There are many who say that publishing today - especially the publishing of new ideas - is in trouble. In many ways, this is hard to argue with, especially as regards commercial academic publishing. At the same time it is, in fact, a very exciting time for publishing. Just as a revolution in music publishing and online distribution has changed the nature of music, new technologies have meant new modes of delivery and new forms of distribution are currently changing the way we engage with ideas. Perhaps most exciting is that it is suddenly much easier for new voices to find publication outside of the established academic presses, and to find new communities that are prepared to give these voices a context.
The Fibreculture Journal, the journal of the Fibreculture network of critical Internet research and culture in Australasia, embraces these changes. We are celebrating the launch of the Fibreculture Journal by publishing two issues. The journal provides a new online forum for intellectual debate about internet, networks and new media related issues. It looks towards a future of publishing that embraces networked multi-media. It aims to give expression to the many critical discussions emerging from the Fibreculture community, at the same time as providing a forum for discussion between the Fibreculture community and other networks around the world. The Fibreculture Journal is also one part of a general strategy on the part of the Fibreculture network to promote new ideas and new avenues of publication for ideas (the other two parts of this strategy shall be an online zine and an online press for monographs and other works).
This first issue of the Fibreculture Journal takes the politics of networks as its theme, inspired by the Sydney meeting of Fibreculturalists in November, 2002. The very idea of the network is something of a paradox in political terms. It promises all kinds of connection that seem inherently liberating and indeed, the network has
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