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<div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Apologies for cross-posting.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I just wanted to quickly remind everyone that our August 1st deadline for abstracts is approaching soon.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">All the best</div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">David  </div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">CFP: Crafting, Hacking, and Making: DIY Pasts, Presents, and Futures</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Edited by Melanie Swalwell, David Murphy, and Maria B. Garda<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">A burgeoning interest in do-it-yourself production is evident around the world, especially in regions that manufacturing industries have abandoned. But while the contemporary Maker Movement would like us to accept its revolutionary-inspired rhetoric of rupture and discontinuity (Hatch 2014), we believe that the current enthusiasm for do-it-yourself production is not without precedent. Existing on the peripheries of industrial production, crafting, hacking, and making movements have emerged in different historical moments and localities in various political and cultural contexts. But instead of inciting comparative analysis, movements have often been defined in opposition to ‘passive’ forms of consumption that a do-it-yourself ethos resists. By contrast, we would like to encourage analyses attending to the diversity of crafting, hacking, and making practices, and intersections and variations that entangle and distinguish communities, networks, and scenes, so an appreciation of similarities and differences can add new perspectives to the discourses surrounding the DIY phenomena.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Furthermore, it is clear that important practices have been excluded from a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics discourse that is often blind to cultural difference on the one hand, and a Cultural and Media Studies discourse that is often unwilling or unprepared to deal with engineering on the other. Existing within this gap is an opportunity to bring forgotten histories into conversation with present-day practices—and an opportunity to examine contemporary and historic intersections where the analogue and the digital overlap—as hacking-inspired methods are no longer specific to digital culture (Cramer, 2014), while digital culture is reigniting an interest in craft (Luckman, 2015). These shifts invite criticism and optimism and a chance to reflect on the significance (or insignificance) of DIY acts, while also remembering (or forgetting) crafting, hacking, and making presents, futures, and pasts.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">This anthology aims to bring together constellations of do-it-yourself production and culture. Proposals for papers that explore any aspect of crafting, hacking, and making, or parallel practices on the peripheries of current discourse will be considered. Both contemporary and historical case studies are welcome, and dialogue between the past, present, and future is encouraged.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">If you are interested in contributing, please submit an abstract (no longer than 300 words minus citations, a title, and a short biography) to<span> </span><a href="mailto:craftinghackingmaking@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">craftinghackingmaking@gmail.<wbr>com</a><span> </span>by August 1st, 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 1, 2018, and January 31, 2019 is the deadline for full chapter submissions. Questions can be emailed to David Murphy<a href="mailto:david.murphy@ryerson.ca" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">david.murphy@ryerson.ca</a>.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Possible topics include, but are not limited to:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">19th and 20th Century Arts and Crafts Movements<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">20th and 21st Century Home Improvement Movements<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">20th and 21st Century Phreaking, Cracking, and Hacking Movements<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">State-Sponsored Crafting, Hacking, and Making Initiatives<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Crafting, Hacking, and Making Industries and Brands<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Tape Trading and Bootlegging<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">DIY Sound Studies, DIY Cinema Studies, DIY Comic Studies<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Pirate and Citizen Band Radio<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Piracy and Privacy Parties<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Homebrew Software Production<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Demoscenes<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Post-Digital Aesthetics<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Noise, Glitch, Internet, and Post-Internet Art<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Zines and Self-Publishing<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">DIY Investment and Finance<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Independent Crafting and Craftivism<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Independent/Alternative Digital Game Production<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Independent/Alternative Analogue Game Production<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Modding and Meta-Game Activities<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Life-hacking and Bio-hacking<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Open Source Software, Hardware, and Science<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Crafting, Hacking, and Making the Internet of Things<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Crafting, Hacking, and Making Economies<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Tractor Hacking<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Hacklabs, Fablabs, and Feminist Hackerspaces<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Makerspaces, Festivals, and Fairs<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Micro Manufacturing and 3D Printing<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px">Crafting, Hacking, and Making the Local<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.4px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></p></div></div></div>