Evidence |
Excerpt from Evidence's Issue Introduction: "And we humbly dedicate this issue to those who have been killed by the ongoing violence in Iraq, whose numbers will never be known, whose remains may never be found, but whose traces should not be lost to history." |
Mobility |
Excerpt from Mobility's Issue Introduction: "This issue explores the possibilities of mobile technologies (and mobile scholarship) while also illustrating that mobility is not equally available to everyone nor inherently a good thing." |
Ephemera |
Excerpt from Ephemera's Issue Introduction: "This issue of Vectors is not intended as a celebration of ephemerality, but rather a gesture of respect for the fleeting nature of the present and the material consequences of the past." |
Perception |
Excerpt from Perception's Issue Introduction: "He went on to describe his visual memories of the country as framed by the shape of and technologies in the cockpits he inhabited -- as vast, panoramic fields of green and brown punctuated and made meaningful by the overlays of his viewfinder and the contours of his windshield." |
Difference |
Excerpt from Difference's Issue Introduction: "They have created a prediction machine that refuses the purely indexical and quantitative dreams of so much of technology, instead pushing us to question what operations of power such mimetic fantasies paper over or conceal." |
Memory |
Excerpt from Memory's Issue Introduction: "This issue of Vectors spins uneasily around the conjoined axis of memory and history without attempting the impossible - and arguably undesirable - task of reconciling the two." |
Current Projects - Current Issue |
Excerpt from Current Projects' Issue Introduction: "Vectors will also continue its commitment to publishing work that is subjected to rigorous, but mutable and multiple, forms of peer review, actively engaging questions of how best to ensure scholarly excellence in work that experiments with both form and content." |