Category: Art
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New Media Gatekeepers: Ecosystems of Access and Denial
Coventry University School of Media and Performing Arts Ellen Terry Building – ETG101 April 22nd – 12:30-16:00 17:00: Book Launch and Wine Reception Organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media: http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Free Symposium. Please Register at: www.newmediagatekeepers. disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Speakers: Margie Borschke (Macquarie University) – Music (via Skype) James Newman…
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In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
:::::::::::::::::: contact: little.prince@custodians.online In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. “It is of some…
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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 Conversation on Digital Archiving Practices
A couple of months ago Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti (both ISIA Urbino) did an interview with me for their MA in Design of Publishing. Silvio Lorusso, was so kind to publish the interview on the fantastic p-dpa.net. I am reblogging it here. Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti are both students from ISIA Urbino, where…
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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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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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Performative Publications
Last spring I worked on a project together with 2nd year design students Nabaa Baqir, Mila Spasova and Serhan Curti to create an alternative take on, or an artist’s book out of the article ‘The political nature of the book. On artists’ books and radical open access’, which was written by myself and Gary Hall…
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The perseverance of print-based authorship within humanities scholarship (III)
Chapter 3 of my thesis focuses on authorship, and you can find a draft of the second part of the chapter underneath. As I stated before, any feedback is of course more than welcome but please take into account that these are just fragments in process which are part of a larger (undefined) ‘whole’. You…
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The perseverance of print-based authorship within humanities scholarship (II)
Chapter 3 of my thesis focuses on authorship, and you can find a draft of the second part of the chapter underneath. As I stated before, any feedback is of course more than welcome but please take into account that these are just fragments in process which are part of a larger (undefined) ‘whole’. You…
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Experiments in editing
On March 7th of this year we ran our first seminar as part of the Disrupting the Humanities Seminar Series at Coventry University, which has been organised by the Centre for Disruptive media. You can find more information about this series here. The videos for this seminar, entitled ‘Disrupting the scholarly establishment. How to create…
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Framing the debate (I). Historical Discourses: The Struggle for Both the Past and Future of the Book
I haven’t posted extracts of my thesis here for a while, although fragments have made their way through some of the papers, presentations, publications, introductions, reviews and invitations I have posted here over the last year. As I am now reaching the final stages of thesis writing–and I am doing my utmost best to turn…