<nettime> CfP: Open Letters

[Stella Aster via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Merry Christmas all 🎄 I would like to share a Call for Participation 
for an experimental journal project:


Open Letters

A journal specialising in the reproduction of meaningful correspondence. 
We publish copies of conversations that have already happened so that 
they can still go on.

Volume 1, ‘transformation’, is open for submissions until Friday 31st 
January 2025

We believe that dialogue, “literary work consisting of a conversation 
between two or more persons”, is a powerful way to make and share 
knowledge. Many of us know its ubiquity, as we spend so much of our 
lives in our inboxes and WhatsApps. Some of us also know of the 
different privileges afforded to different forms of media and dialogue: 
the newspapers are different to the Discord server is different to the 
academic journals are different to my emails with colleagues are 
different to our chats down the pub. We believe that all of these forms 
of conversation provide different and valid ways of making and sharing 
understanding. Recording and sharing conversations more widely opens 
those conversations to more people, along with the knowledges and 
understandings transmitted through them. We believe that this can be a 
Good Thing.

The theme for Volume 1 is ‘transformation’. We want conversations that 
have made impacts in your life and the lives of people around you. 
Perhaps you learned to understand something from a new perspective, or 
you realised you had to make a change, or do something differently. We 
invite people to share examples of sincere, intimate, and nourishing 
conversations.

We accept open letters, private correspondence, and other communications 
and exchanges taking place through many formats and media, including 
postal and electronic mail, direct messages and group chats on digital 
platforms, and audio and video recordings and transcripts of 
conversations and relational interviews. We are open to other formats 
which are not on this list, so don’t be shy when submitting 😊 We 
currently accept only submissions in English as that is the only natural 
language the editor knows. All submissions must be made with the 
explicit consent of all voices included.


Submit at https://stella-aster.com/open-letters

Thanks,

Stella ✨


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