Category: Reading
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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…
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Paper Struggles & Public Library and the Property Form
An exhibition and seminar at: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, London, E1 7LS Exhibition, ‘Paper Struggles’, opening: Monday, 9 December, 18.30-21.00 Continues: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, 11.00-21.00 Seminar, ‘Public Library and the Property Form’: Tuesday 10 December, 10.30-13.30 Guest speakers: Balász Bodó & Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Seminar registration: http://tiny.cc/public_library ‘Paper Struggles’ This exhibition documents how struggles over…
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Experimental Publishing II – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation
A half-day symposium with talks by Mark Amerika (UC Boulder) and Nick Thurston (University of Leeds) 2:15-5:30pm May 28 Centre for Postdigital Cultures Teaching Room 3rd Floor Lanchester Library Coventry University Registration (free): https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/experimental-publishing-ii2/ In 2019 and 2020, the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) will be hosting a series of symposia exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over…
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unruly gestures
I am happy to announce the publication of a new article, a video-essay, which I co-authored with the filmmaker and theorist Kamila Kuc. Published in the open access journal Culture Unbound, the basis of this performative article lies in a video Kamila and I made, which deals with and breaks through common preconceptions and assumptions…
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New article: Performative Publications
Published in the disrupted Journal of Media practice (more on this collaboratively edited special issue here) is my latest article on ‘Performative Publications’. This experimental and processual article is available in various different versions. Underneath the abstract and the introduction to ‘Performative Publications’, which explain in more detail the context of this research project…
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Posthuman Reading
La Maleta de Portbou is a Spanish magazine of Humanities and Economy, edited by the philosopher Josep Ramoneda and published bimonthly in both print and digital format. The magazine is named in memory of Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide in Portbou in 1940 when he fled the Nazi persecution. Benjamin wanted to launch a journal…
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Post-Digital Living Bookshelves
The book has always been studied within a wide variety of fields, from (book) history, bibliography and literature, to library and information science, publishing, and media studies. However, the latter—media studies—has been quite slow in its uptake of the book as an object of study, where as a field it has predominantly focused on audio-visual…
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Don’t Give Your Labour To Academia.edu, Use It To Strengthen The Academic Commons
At the end of last year Times Higher Education invited me to provide an opinion piece on academic social networking sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, and to reflect on the ‘Why are we not boycotting Academia.edu?‘ event the Centre for Disruptive Media organised last December, featuring Pascal Aventurier, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, David Parry and…
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The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive (II)
Last month, together with Silvia Stoyanova, I delivered a lecture at the “Methodological Intersections”: Trier Digital Humanities Autumn School 2015 (which Silvia co-organised) on the topic of ‘The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive’. Silvia’s part of the lecture has been posted here, underneath you can find my contribution. I would like to focus on some of the…
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The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive
Last month, together with Silvia Stoyanova, I delivered a lecture at the “Methodological Intersections”: Trier Digital Humanities Autumn School 2015 (which Silvia co-organised) on the topic of ‘The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive’. Underneath Silvia’s fantastic contribution. I will post my part of the lecture tomorrow. The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive Power Point Slides In this lecture, we…
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Bookfuturism: Visions of the Future Book
Underneath a transcript of the talk I gave at the Norlit 2015: The Book to Come conference, which took place August 20-22 at Goteborg University. In it I outline the contours for a new research project on ‘visions of the future book’. The PP accompanying this talk can be accessed here. I want to share…
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A Differential Thesis: Performing Versioned, Iterative, and Processual Scholarship
This blog has from its instantiation served as a platform to publish, among others, various iterations of my in-progress thesis in networked and multimodal ways in a (relatively) collaborative and interactive setting. It thus served as an experimental digital component to the print-on-paper version of my thesis, which I delivered to fulfill the requirements towards…