Our 2011 Theme Issue: MAPS
by Fringe Magazine • 09.06.2010Fringe seeks submissions for its fifth anniversary theme issue: MAPS.
Like the best writing, maps show us the world and also tell us about it. On a literal level, they tell us where we’re coming from, show us what we’re headed toward, and in the modern age, lay out the most efficient route to get us where we’re going. They can reveal far more than geographical truth — take Charles Joseph Minard’s map of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, which uses geography, temperature, time, and army size to tell the story, or the Beehive Collective’s graphic representing colonialism in the Andes, or our map of the human genome. Maps can be literal (atlases, highway maps, directions one stranger draws for another), virtual (Google Maps, GPS, tag clouds), and political (urban food deserts, “unspecified locations,” geographical privilege, red-state-blue-state maps). And of course, maps delineate the areas about which we know nothing, the spaces in which imagination has free reign—Here there be dragons.”
Submissions close January 5, 2011. Please follow our guidelines, and add “Maps” to your subject line.
Some sites to get you thinking about the possibilities for this theme:
Denis Wood, cartographer
Info Aesthetics, “Where form follows data”
Edward Tufte, theorist of information design
Radical Cartography
Counter Cartographies Collective
The Map as Art
Fringe Magazine was founded in 2005 by an all-women group of editors dedicated to political and experimental literature. The quarterly online journal has published work by 120 writers and artists since its first issue in February 2006. Each month, the magazine receives 15,000+ unique users.
We look forward to seeing your work.
The Editors of Fringe
www.fringemagazine.org
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The fairy birth
I remember as if it was yesterday
Just sitting in my back yard just
Watching the baby caterpillar’s
Leave the nest. Just watching them
Grow so fast and in five hours they
Have all become cocoon’s about an
Hour later they were butter flies. As
The day went on I seen the most gorgeous
Scene ever all the butterflies have all went
Into cocoon’s to evolve. By night time
While I was out watching the stars
From underneath the tree and that is where
I have seen all the butterfly cocoons
Open up and I couldn’t believe what
I saw a bunch of colorful flames around
These figures and I then realized it…….
…… I was in the fairy birth place where
All fairies are made and hatched from such
A majestic creature.
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