The second issue of Static, the online journal of the London Consortium is now online. The theme of this issue is on ‘Trafficking’. To view Static please visit:
http://static.londonconsortium.com/

List of contributions:

Editorial|Irini Marinaki and Konstantinos Stefanis

Mobility and the Nation|Nikos Papastergiadis

Smuggling the State into Transgression| Simon Harvey

Remote Sensing |Ursula Biemann & Ingrid Hoofd

Traffic, trade and the realm of signification |Dietrich Heißenbüttel

Contraband Desert |Simon Harvey

Invisible Future Systems Part 3| Lina Theodorou

The Heart of Darkness |Katerina Gregos

Congestion in the data flow|Basak Senova

About Static:
Static is the web resource of the London Consortium, a unique collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Tate.
Aiming to initiate interdisciplinary intellectual debate about paradoxes of contemporary culture, Static presents contributions from an international team of academics, artists and cultural practitioners.
The materials, assembled for each issue around a theme, include analytical essays and articles, interviews, art projects, photographic images, etc. Static will welcome feedback, argument and commentary from scholars, artists and other readers, and will be regularly updated in order to communicate the most recent and relevant ideas and interpretations on the chosen topic.