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    <p class="xmsonormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black"><i>Culture Machine</i> is happy to announce that <b>Vol 25
          (2026)</b>, <i>University
          as Infrastructure</i>, will be guest-edited by </span><span
style="font-family:
"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#C00000">Alexandra Anikina,
        Johannes Bruder,
        Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips &
        Geoff Cox</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">.
        You can now read
        the full <b>CfP</b> at Culture Machine’s website
        (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-university-as-infrastructure/">https://culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-university-as-infrastructure/</a></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">).
        Some key excerpts
        below:</span></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">Initiated by the </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:#C00000">Critical Infrastructures & Image Politics research
        group </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">at
        Winchester School
        of Art in collaboration with the </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:#C00000">Centre for the Study of the Networked Image</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">,
        London South Bank
        University and </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:#C00000">Critical Media Lab</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">, Basel Academy of Art and Design, this special issue aims
        to take
        stock of the challenges and possibilities for <b><i>University
            as
            Infrastructure</i></b>. <br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">One of the central references here is the second issue of
        Culture
        Machine, published 25 years ago, in which the editors examined</span><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/culturemachine.net/the-university-culture-machine/prospectus/__;!!K7l7YuZ3_aFnun0eduI!kJ7Nc6Z8x6vNLaMZPyJBfT25yI-poTxLhaY6T8bJMEmIn0t03vQOmi9PP4HcczVKeGc8NoBJb8iQ3c6EsUBgy-EBwwoJ88qEC4g$"
        target="_blank"
title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://culturemachine.net/the-university-culture-machine/prospectus/__;!!K7l7YuZ3_aFnun0eduI!kJ7Nc6Z8x6vNLaMZPyJBfT25yI-poTxLhaY6T8bJMEmIn0t03vQOmi9PP4HcczVKeGc8NoBJb8iQ3c6EsUBgy-EBwwoJ88qEC4g$"><span
          style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> the
          idea of the university as a
          culture machine</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black"> (Gary Hall and Simon Wortham, eds. <i>The University
          Culture
          Machine</i>, 2000). At that time concerns were raised about
        the discourse of
        league tables, teaching quality assessments, learning outcomes,
        transferable
        skills, student-centred learning, problem-solving and working in
        teams,
        tendencies which have been accelerated and supplemented by new
        forms of
        managerialism. </span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:#C00000">The university machine is now more fully automated and
        more
        obviously integrated into wider circuits of capital, the
        commodification of
        knowledge and extractive practices</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">. To think about this infrastructurally helps to position
        the
        debate under contemporary conditions of ‘academic capitalism’
        and its
        logistical operations that are some of the colonial legacies of
        institutionalising knowledge.</span></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">The list of potential themes includes, but is not limited
          to:</span></b><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black"> <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">the university’s shift from culture machine to
          infrastructure
          machine <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">the logistical operation of university corporatisation,
          marketisation and neoliberalisation of education <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">the dependency on outsourced online and automated services
          <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">recent developments in generative artificial intelligence
          and
          increased automation of knowledge systems <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">extractivism and the influence of the industrial-military
          complex
          within university <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">financial and governance models of universities <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">the ambiguous leveraging of freedom of speech & freedom
          of
          science by universities <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">universities’ responses to national regulations and
          political
          shifts <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">examining the changing roles, qualities and value of the
          student
          and staff experience  <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">the tension between the lived experience and ‘well-being’,
          ‘mental
          health’, ‘EDI’ as defined by university structures <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">affective/cognitive capital within university as
          infrastructure <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">critical perspectives of the university that draw upon
          queer &
          transfeminist, postcolonial and critical </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">race studies <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">grassroots open and adaptive alternatives <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">student and staff infrastructural activism <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">care in the development and maintenance of infrastructures
          <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">historical reflection on education as a key site of social
          struggle <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">university responses to student occupations <br>
        </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">submissions that are critical or subversive towards the
          format of
          academic papers (</span></i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">please contact the editors to check if the format can be
        supported
        in the existing infrastructure of Culture Machine<i>)</i></span></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black"> </span></i></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:#EE0000">Calendar</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black"> <br>
        </span></b></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black;background:yellow">Abstract</span></b><b><span
style="font-family:
"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"> submissions (up to
          300 words) are due
          on <span style="background:yellow">15 September 2025</span> </span></b></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">Submit Drafts 15 December 2025</span></b></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">Peer Review 1 February – 31 May 2026</span></b></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">Revised Articles due on 1 August 2026</span></b></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">Publication in October 2026</span></b></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black"> </span></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">Again, you can read the full CfP, with selected references,
      </span><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-university-as-infrastructure/__;!!K7l7YuZ3_aFnun0eduI!kJ7Nc6Z8x6vNLaMZPyJBfT25yI-poTxLhaY6T8bJMEmIn0t03vQOmi9PP4HcczVKeGc8NoBJb8iQ3c6EsUBgy-EBwwoJT8tRvc0$"
        target="_blank"
title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-university-as-infrastructure/__;!!K7l7YuZ3_aFnun0eduI!kJ7Nc6Z8x6vNLaMZPyJBfT25yI-poTxLhaY6T8bJMEmIn0t03vQOmi9PP4HcczVKeGc8NoBJb8iQ3c6EsUBgy-EBwwoJT8tRvc0$"><span
          style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">here</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">:
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-university-as-infrastructure/">https://culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-university-as-infrastructure/</a>.</span></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black"> </span></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">All best, <br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="xmsonormal"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
color:black">Culture Machine</span></p>
    <p></p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/">https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/</a>

Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a> 
Website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Blog: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/</a>


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