Tag: Humanities
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Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities
I am very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing: ‘Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities’, edited by Gary Hall and myself. This special issue consists of a selection of video-articles by contributors including Mark Amerika, Monika Bakke, Endre Dányi, Johanna Drucker, Lesley Gourlay, Sarah Kember, Silvio Lorusso, Erin Manning,…
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Radical Open Access Conference
Coventry University 15th – 16th of June 2015 Two days of critical discussion and debate in support of an ‘alternative’ vision for open access and scholarly communication. The aim of the conference is to explore some of the intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. A particular emphasis…
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On Liquid Books and Fluid Humanities (part III)
Chapter 6 of my thesis explores both the discursive-material practices that have promoted the idea and use of the book as a fixed object of communication, as well as more fluid, flowing visions of information transmission that are commonly attached to digital forms of communication. It focuses on why it is that we cut and…
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On Liquid Books and Fluid Humanities (part II)
Chapter 6 of my thesis explores both the discursive-material practices that have promoted the idea and use of the book as a fixed object of communication, as well as more fluid, flowing visions of information transmission that are commonly attached to digital forms of communication. It focuses on why it is that we cut and…
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On Liquid Books and Fluid Humanities (part I)
Chapter 6 of my thesis explores both the discursive-material practices that have promoted the idea and use of the book as a fixed object of communication, as well as more fluid, flowing visions of information transmission that are commonly attached to digital forms of communication. It focuses on why it is that we cut and…
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Embracing Messiness
Last week, from the 12-14th of November, I attended The Post-Digital Scholar Conference. Publishing between Open Access, Piracy and Public Spheres, in Lüneburg, organised by the Hybrid Publishing Lab. I gave a paper in the panel ‘The Mess that Open Access has become’, organised by Andreas Kirchner, and including Armin Beverungen (Leuphana University), Martin Haspelmath…
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Videos Aesthetics of the Humanities Seminar
On June 11th the Centre for Disruptive Media hosted the second seminar in the Disrupting the humanities seminar series. This seminar was entitled ‘The aesthetics of the humanities: towards a poetic knowledge production’, and featured fantastic papers by Erin Manning, Søren Pold, Johanna Drucker and Silvio Lorusso. The videos of the presentations and the discussions…
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Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. Symposium on alternative practices in humanities research
TEEME and The Centre for Disruptive Media present: Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. A symposium on alternative practices in humanities research Saturday, 27 September 2014 from 11:00 to 18:15 University of Kent Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 Grimond Building CT2 7NZ Canterbury United Kingdom http://www.kent.ac.uk/knowledge-machines Registration: http://www.knowledgemachines.eventbrite.co.uk/ Knowledge Machines is a free one-day symposium…
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The Centre for Disruptive Media presents Disrupting the Humanities A series of 3 half-day seminars looking at research and scholarship in a ‘posthumanities’ context, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University. Disrupting the Humanities will both critically engage with the humanist legacy of the humanities, and creatively explore alternative and affirmative possible…
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The Centre for Disruptive Media presents Disrupting the Humanities A series of 3 half-day seminars looking at research and scholarship in a ‘posthumanities’ context, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University, and held over the course of spring and summer, 2014. Disrupting the Humanities will both critically engage with the humanist legacy…
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Why experiment? A critical analysis of the values behind digital scholarly publishing
Last month I presented a paper entitled ‘Why Experiment? A Critical Analysis of the Values Behind Digital Scholarly Publishing’ at the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, France, July 4th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO. This presentation was part of the panel: ‘Publishing Cultural Studies, Now and in the Future’, with excellent papers…
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DOAB Discussion on Open Access Books
For more than a week now I have been moderating a wonderful discussion on Open Access books as part of wider user needs research for the DOAB (The Directory of Open Access Books). DOAB is a discovery service for Open Access monographs which provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under…