• Article in new formations on Editorial Labour
    Article in new formations on Editorial Labour

    Sam Moore and I have a new article out in a special issue of New Formations on Public Knowledge. More information about our article ‘Just One Day of Unstructured Autonomous Time’: Supporting Editorial Labour for Ethical Publishing within the University’ underneath but the entire issue is well worth a read. Our article is available to…

  • Launch of the Experimental Publishing Compendium
    Launch of the Experimental Publishing Compendium

    The Copim community and Open Book Futures are pleased to announce the launch of the  Experimental Publishing Compendium https://compendium.copim.ac.uk/ The compendium is a guide and reference for scholars, publishers, developers, librarians, and designers who want to challenge, push, and redefine the shape, form, and rationale of scholarly books. The compendium gathers and links tools, examples of…

  • Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium
    Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium

    Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium, edited by Gabriela Méndez Cota. Like all Open Humanities Press books, Ecological Rewriting is available open access (it can be downloaded for free): https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/ Book description Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium is the first…

  • COPIM Conference: Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing 
    COPIM Conference: Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing 

    Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing  Exploring Archival Data Performances, Re-using as Re-writing, and Computational Books  An Online Conference in Three Parts  Monday 20 February, Thursday 9 March, & Monday 13 March 2023 Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)  Experimental Publishing and Reuse Work Package final conference  Register here (free): https://experimentalbooks.pubpub.org/ (please note that places…

  • Two New COPIM Research Reports Published
    Two New COPIM Research Reports Published

    We have released two new COPIM Research Reports last months. The first report is version 2.0 of the report Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing, which we released last year and have now updated, incorporating feedback from readers and our community and adding new content. This report has been updated for this version by myself,…

  • Experimental Publishing VI – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation
    Experimental Publishing VI – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation

    A symposium with talks by Winnie Soon (Aarhus University) and Roopika Risam (Salem State University)  Registration (free): https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/744/home This is the sixth in a series of symposia hosted by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over the course of the series, we will ask questions about the role and…

  • New Books Network Podcast about Living Books
    New Books Network Podcast about Living Books

    The wonderful Sarah Kearns, who has also been incredibly helpful in getting Living Books. Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021) up on PubPub (opening the book up for annotations and comments), has conducted a podcast interview with me for the New Books Network about Living Books. You can listen to the interview here and…

  • Textshop Experiments Living Books Book Talk
    Textshop Experiments Living Books Book Talk

    I am so glad to have been invited by the amazing Kevin Wisniewski (@projectorperiod) to do a book talk as part of the Textshop Experiments Book Talks! Textshop Experiments is a scholarly open access journal dedicated to fostering experimental works and to exploring electracy, rhetoric, media, and culture in the digital age. Kevin also runs…

  • New COPIM Report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books
    New COPIM Report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books

    Two weeks ago we released a new COPIM research report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and Authors. The report has been written by Samuel Moore, Tobias Steiner, and myself. This three-part research and scoping report has been created as a (evolving) resource for the scholarly community, especially for publishers…

  • OA Books Workouts. Scholars At Work
    OA Books Workouts. Scholars At Work

    This series, hosted by Jeroen Sondervan, features different scholars talking about publishing Open Access books. Hear more about their projects, why they chose Open Access, and the challenges and triumphs they experienced along the way! 19 October 2021 (2-3PM BST / 3-4PM CEST): Janneke Adema, Living Books. Book your place here (it’s free!) Series of…

  • Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium
    Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium

    Friday, 1 October 2021 With the demise of traditional gatekeepers, we are witnessing the rapid rise of alternative modes of both scholarly publishing and distribution as well as the artistic exhibition of computer generated works of art in digital environments. The rise of open access and collaborative platforms are in fact blurring the distinctions between…

  • Living Books published today!
    Living Books published today!

    I am really happy to announce that my MIT Press book Living Books. Experiments in the Posthumanities has been published today! It is available in print, in open access PDF on the MIT Press Direct Platform, and on PubPub. The PubPub version allows direct commenting on and further versioning of Living Books. I have written…