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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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Publishing and Place
Next week Tuesday I will be hosting a panel with writer and researcher Nathan O’Donnell on the theme of ‘Publishing and Place.’ This panel is part of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures Annual Conference, which takes place June 15-16 and this year focuses on The Postdigital City for Post-Pandemic Times (more info underneath). You can…
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Experimental Publishing IV – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation
A symposium with a talk by Paul Soulellis (Queer.Archive.Work and Rhode Island School of Design) 17:00-18:00pm BST June 11Centre for Postdigital Cultures (online talk) Post-publishing website: https://www.post-publishing.org/ Registration (free): https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/293/home This is the fourth in a series of symposia hosted by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over the course…
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New Article: “Scaling Small; Or How to Envision New Relationalities for Knowledge Production”
In March the article Sam Moore and I wrote on “scaling small” as an alternative organisational principle for governing community-led publishing projects (see abstract below) was published in the journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, as part of a WPCC special issue on ‘Publishing, the Internet and the Commons’, guest edited by Andrew Lockett.…
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Registration for Radical Open Access II – The Ethics of Care now open
Radical Open Access II – The Ethics of Care Two days of critical discussion about creating a more diverse and equitable future for open access The Post Office Coventry University June 26-27 2018 Organised by Coventry University’s postdigital arts and humanities research studio The Post Office, a project of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures Find out more at: http://radicaloa.co.uk/conferences/roa2/…
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An Evening of Empowering Women
I am excited to announce that I have been invited to speak at ‘An Evening of Empowering Women’ at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on Friday 13th October 2017. This evening will involve talks from inspiring women and open discussion on the challenges facing women leaders, and will support the participation of 3 early-career researchers, Maddie…
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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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Culture Machine Liquid Books, Volume 9: Really, We’re Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files
Image Credit: CC-BY: Linda N. from Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22748341@N00/361025310/ We are pleased to announce Volume 9 in the Culture Machine Liquid Book Series, published by Open Humanities Press: Really, We’re Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files. This book can be accessed here: http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/106236504/The%20Academia_edu%20Files Really, We’re Helping To Build This . .…
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Why I am not an OA zealot
This is a guest post by Ronald Snijder. Ronald has been involved in OAPEN since 2008. Apart from doing IT related stuff, he’s an external PhD candidate at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (Leiden University). Occasionally on Twitter: @ronaldsnijder. Why I am not an OA zealot Open Access publishing inspires strong emotions by…