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In referring to the cancellation of Pluto’s planetary status in 2006, #BWPWAP (Back When Pluto Was a Planet) – the 2013 edition of the transmediale festival – interrogates techno-cultural processes of displacement and invention, and asks for artistic and speculative responses to new cultural imaginaries. In light of this, the conference and workshop Researching #BWPWAP took place in November 2012 in Lüneburg, Germany, organised jointly by Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Aarhus University and the reSource transmedial culture/transmediale. This issue presents some outcomes of this process, and like the conference and workshop, can be interpreted in the context of a research culture that has been significantly destabilized by network culture and digital media. If the planet Pluto didn’t exactly fall prey to an epistemological break or a scientific revolution, but rather to a mundane administrative procedure – a redefinition of what constitutes a planet – then what does this say about contemporary research culture? Contents * Christian Ulrik Andersen, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Armin Beverungen, Geoff Cox, Kristoffer Gansing - Editorial: #BWPWAP 4 * Magda Tyżlik-Carver - Solar system as it really is and curating as/in common/s 6 * Yara Guasque - Circularity and anthropophagic consumption as a metaphor: The body as currency? 18 * Matthias Tarasiewicz - Query public(s) in the next society: »Artistic Technology Research« as [dispositif] and synergetic discipline for the agency of research and development in next (media) cultures 28 * Renée Ridgway - Crowdfunding or funding the crowds: a new model for the distribution of wealth? 38 * Florian Alexander Schmidt - For a Few Dollars More: Class Action Against Crowdsourcing 60 * Francesco Macarone Palmieri aka Warbear - EMOPORN 74 * Marcello Lussana - Music and Body as Ritual-Performance 86 * Sheila Ribeiro - Absurd Congruencies 94 * Andrew Prior - Glitching Paralogy 104 * Mikkel Bech-Hansen - Musical Instrument Interfaces 112 * Helen Pritchard - Thinking with the Animal-Hacker: Articulation in Ecologies of Earth Observation 120 * Gabriel Vanegas and Siegfried Zielinski - Back to the Future in a Place Called America: Ancient logics, media and technologies 132