Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
Vectors new issue covers/explores/interrogates/demonstrates Difference:
Many writing on new technology in the mid 1990s commented on the parallels between the ways of knowing modeled in computer culture and in theories of poststructuralism. Meanwhile, critical race and postcolonial scholars have highlighted how certain tendencies within poststructuralist theory simultaneously respond to and marginalize blackness. This maneuver may at least partially be possible because of a parallel and increasing dispersion of electronic forms across culture, forms which simultaneously enact and shape these new modes of thinking. Certain modes of racial visibility and knowing coincide or dovetail with specific technologies of vision: if the electronic underwrites today's key modes of vision and is a central technology in post-World War II America, these technologized ways of seeing and knowing took shape in a world also struggling with shifting knowledges and representations of race.
The pieces are experimental, interactive essays on postmodern archiving practice (a self-reflective experiment), annotated video of Iraq and Afghanistan combat, distributed culture, and more. Very interesting takes on interface design for academic discourse as well. The screenshot above is from David Theo Goldberg and Stefka Hristova's "Blue Velvet: Re-Dressing New Orleans in Katrina's Wake," an interactive multimedia space for exploring race, capitalism, and reconstruction in New Orleans.