introduction to

Author	Title	Date posted
Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall	'Responding: A Discussion with Samuel Weber'	November 2001
Gavin Kendall and Mike Michael	'Order and Disorder: Time, Technology and the Self'	November 2001

Welcome to the InterZone. 

The InterZone is an addition or supplement to the Culture Machine journal. It publishes research in culture and theory all year round (rather than annually). It is also unthemed, thus enabling Culture Machine to  promote and support a far greater diversity of work. Other than that, all the main features of the Culture Machine journal remain: the InterZone is open to both established figures and newer writers; it welcomes so-called ‘inter-active’ texts, or any other textual forms that take advantage of and explore the uses and limitations of new technology; and accepts commissioned and unsolicited material from both academics and non-academics. 

Why have we called it the InterZone? Because it seemed fitting for a space located in the margins and 'in-between' places of the Culture Machine journal:

 
The Zone is a single, vast building. The rooms are made of a plastic cement 
that bulges to accomodate people, but when too many people crowd into one room 
there is a soft plop and someone squeezes through the wall right into the next 
house...

(William Burroughs, The Naked Lunch)

One the one hand, inter- separates, places between two or more entities, keeps them apart, puts up a frontier, prevents them meeting, joining, mingling and maybe identifying. ... But
on the other, inter- joins, provides a means of communication and exchange. This can go from inter-view to inter-action to inter-course to inter-penetration, and implies just the opposite of the first sense of inter-: here the gap or difference is not being established or
reinforced, but diminished, overcome or denied. 

(Geoffrey Bennington, 'Inter')

Anyone who has material they would like to submit to either the Culture Machine journal or the Culture Machine InterZone for publication is invited to contact the editors via email link. (We reply to all serious mails).

Please note: all contributions to Culture Machine, including the Culture Machine journal, InterZone and Reviews section, will be refereed anonymously.

Authors should follow the procedures outlined in the 'Submissions' section when preparing their contributions which should normally be no more than 5,000 words in length.