The Journal of Hyper(+)drome.Manifestation is a space for the articulation of radical perspectives on the state of the world we're in. Its thematology spans all spheres of life in which technology is a common denominator and a catalyst for upheaval and change. The fact that particular emphasis is laid upon the transformating potential of disruptive technology does not reflect any endorsion of, or nearly mystical devotion to technological determinism. Technology shall set us free does not hold here as the ruling maxim – and its thesis will be scrutinised for what it actually is: an imaginary institution whose reach and richness has risen to alarming levels among technology enthusiasts. But we're neither Luddites: beyond doubt, technology is a massive agitator and its dynamic has a dramatically destabilising effect on the status quo. We have neither built any Ivory Tower for science nor we are divorced from the pragmatics of technological evolution and exploitation.

As such, our main tendency in manifest is by default hypersyndromic: through our analysis links and connections emerge where previously there were none. Compelled as we are to step outside from a narrow field of pseudo-scientific inclination, we look at the world as it is: complex in its stratified historico-economic development, full of paradox in its malleable ways, galvanised by interconnections and interdependencies produced by the local interactions of semi-autonomous agents and propagated through channels and media amenable to (the control of) memetic evolution, simulated and mediated through plastic arrangements, stimulated by rationality-bounded human imperatives.

Topics we are interested in exploring include but are not limited to cognitive capitalism and immaterial labour, virtual reality, open source and free software, weblogs, blogging, content syndication, and the democratisation of Internet publishing, new media organisation, peer-to-peer, studies of virtual community life, social capital formation in virtual networks, counter-globalisation and Empire, bio-production, rave, trance and techno culture, squatting, nanotech-molecular manufacturing, bioinformatics, robotics, and genomics, wearable-portable computing and tech miniaturisation, the Semantic Web, flashmobs, social hacking, wireless community networks, technoshamanism and the metaphysics of technology, digital convergence, mobile telephony, digital and emergent democracy, digital ethics, information warfare, information politics, intellectual property, digitisation of industrial economy sectors (ie. Napsterisation of the music industry), the construction of plastic imagery in and through global telecommunication networks, the new dialectic of play, theories surrounding the transition from 'property relations to network access', gatekeeping, control after decentralisation, media prosthetics, tactical media, the politics of code, DIY cyber-culture, patterns of Internet usage and adoption, electronic business, VoIP (voice over IP), radical Vs. incremental innovation.

If you're interested in these subjects and would like to publish your work here in the spirit of academic peer-review, then a good place to start is the guidelines for authors section.

The Journal of Hyper(+)drome.Manifestation is a hyper(+)drome project sustained by the unpaid-for labour pains of a globaly distributed network of peers whose objective is to add a few blocks of valuable knowledge to the critical discourse that is underway about the social, economic, cultural, political, and scientific impact of discontinuous socio-technological change.