XENOMORPH: alien agency - call for submissions

XENOMORPH: ALIEN AGENCY (Xaa) provides an internet home
for innovative, experimental work on and in the science
fiction mode. Sf is not only a genre, but also a mode of
awareness and production particularly relevant in these
First Days of the 21st century. In the recent past, the
sf genre has produced unprecedented "sf fx" in the able
handminds of Gwyneth Jones, Ken Macleod, Octavia E.
Butler and many others. At the same time, sf has
exploded beyond the limits of genre and begun to make
waves in fields as disparate as music, art, critical
theory, architecture, and politics. Sf theory, for
example, has left the confines of "SF Studies" per se and
taken new forms in the work of Donna Haraway, Jean
Baudrillard, and Manuel Delanda. SF music and art, too,
have produced exciting sf agents like Sun Ra, Ebon
Fisher, and the Center for Tactical Magic. Sf
technoscience, too, has produced weird luminaries like K.
Eric Drexler, Hans Moravec, and Lynn Margulis. And, of
course, the sf mode is wider still: TV, film, RPGs,
MMORPGs, and other games, anime, etc. Xaa brings these
and other strands of sf mode activity together, focusing
especially on sf fx, anthropocentrism, ecological ethics
and alien agency, among gazillions of other possible
topics. Neologistic by nature, Xaa actively seeks new
ways of thinking, speaking, writing, worlding, making,
and playing.

XENOMORPH: ALIEN AGENCY needs you! Pose questions you
can't answer, make mini-manifestoes, lay bare your
craziest reflections, wildest theories, and most
far-fetched experiments. Submissions for this first
edition are open to any and all, in all fields,
disciplines, and media; an interest in the sf mode, in
the futures, and in new possibilities is the only
requirement. For our first edition, we are accepting
short texts (300 word maximum) and small widgets (images,
video, etc), with a preference for the
experimental, the innovative, and the eccentric.

Deadline for submissions: 20 September 02006
Contact: [email protected]

PLEASE CIRCULATE AS WILDLY AS POSSIBLE!