A Journal of Networked Media Ecologies

H'MMM

begins with a pause, a hesitation, a hum — making space for curiosity, drift, uncertainty, and invention.

Founding Editors: S. Andrew Stowe & Sergio C. Figueiredo Launch: Summer 2026 · Inaugural Volume: Summer 2027

Mission

Into the Groove

H'mmm names a mode of attention that lingers rather than rushes — that listens for resonance instead of demanding conclusions.

In a moment when networked media systems reward speed, clarity, and compliance, this journal makes space for what happens when scholars, artists, teachers, and makers step slightly out of time.

Spiritually and intellectually, H'MMM emerges from the electrate tradition associated with Gregory Ulmer, while refusing nostalgia for an earlier, more optimistic digital moment. Electracy is not a moral condition; it is an apparatus — shaped today by platform capitalism, algorithmic governance, and the commodification of attention, affect, and identity.

Rather than offering critique alone, H'MMM invites experiments that supplement the epistemological with the ontological: work that does not just explain networked media ecologies, but inhabits, tests, and misuses them.

The H'MMM
Disciplines

Four domains in conversation — each a groove worth following.

Domain 01

Humanities

The critical and speculative core. Theory as lived practice, pedagogy as invention, scholarship that refuses to separate knowing from making.

Domain 02

Music & Sound

Sonic epistemology, acoustic ecology, the rhythm of networked attention. What can we know through listening that we cannot know through reading?

Domain 03

Movies & Image

Moving images, still frames, visual arguments. Screen culture as apparatus, cinema as philosophical method, the image as site of thinking.

Domain 04

Media & Genre

Platforms, protocols, formats, and the genres they produce — and the practices that slip through, around, and underneath them.

Submission Categories

Where Does
Your Work Belong?

Inventive Methodologies

Seek what sages-past sought.

Flash Reason —Associative, affective, aesthetic. Coherence through resonance rather than deduction.
Heuretics —Invention as method. Show how you arrive, not just where you land.
Theory Hobby —Theory as cultivation — collected, rehearsed, gamed, built, performed.
Textshops —Collaborative, process-based scholarship. Drafting as visible composition.

Spatial, Historical & World-Building

World the World.

Choramancy —Place, environment, mediated space. Map, remix, document, re-site.
New Historiographies —Experimental history: archival encounters, speculative genealogies, montage.
Worlding —Construct rather than describe. Invent conceptual ecosystems and inhabitable worlds.

Constructive & Post-Critical

Critique reveals. Post-Critique asks what follows.

Post-Critique —Move from demystification to invention. Prototype, repair, redesign, reorient.
Emergent Ontologies —How being shifts in networked ecologies. Subjectivity, agency, affect as lived conditions.

Aesthetic & Media Experiments

Experiment to your heart's content.

Multimodal —Video essays, visual arguments, sound works, interfaces, playlists. Works that perform theory.

Parlor Conversations

Short, Generative Conversations. Curated Collectives. Guest Edited.

Curated exchanges (3–20 voices) responding to a shared question, event, or media exigence. Contributions should speak to one another — forming a relay, constellation, or unfolding dialogue. Submissions should be conceptually cohesive, not isolated position statements. Enter the parlor.

Format & Scope

Any Form Welcome

"If your work feels too strange for traditional journals, too playful for conventional theory, or too thoughtful for platforms optimized for engagement metrics — H'MMM is likely its home."

Accepted formats include

Essays (5–15 pp.) Media Artifacts Multimodal Compositions Visual Arguments Sonic Projects Interactive Works Hybrid Formats Interfaces Playlists Scripts Speculative Procedures Pedagogical Artifacts Fragments Diagrams Playable Artifacts

We welcome serious works, unserious works, and works that refuse to decide which they are. The submission should be structurally coherent and conceptually complete — even when it resists conventional closure.

Hum Along.
See Where
The Vibe Takes You.

Whether you keep time or drift, stay steady or syncopate — this journal invites you in.

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