Category: Ebooks
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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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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 (I)
Chapter 3 of my thesis focuses on authorship, and you can find a draft of the first 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’. For…
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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…
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Experiments in Knowledge Production. Open Access and the politics of the digital academy
Last week Michael Guggenheim (CSISP, Goldsmiths) and Noortje Marres (CSISP, Goldsmiths) convened an event about experiments in knowledge production at Goldsmiths, which included Limn, Mattering Press and Big Data and Society. Noortje Marres introduced the workshops as having two main aims. Firstly its focus is on getting to know more about the three invited initiatives in experimental…
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Hybrid Publishing: Scalar and watching reading write
Last week I attended a fascinating workshop organised by the Hybrid Publishing Lab on ‘Rewiring the Future of Publishing’. Tara McPherson and Robert Ochshorn both gave talks and my notes are underneath. Both Tara and Robert showed way more examples during their talk than I describe here to illustrate and support their argumentation. So any…
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Culture Machine Live podcast: Johanna Drucker
Culture Machine Live, a series of podcasts which consider a range of issues including the digital humanities, internet politics, the future of cultural studies, cultural theory and philosophy, is pleased to announce its latest episode: ‘Speculative Computing and the Aesthetics of the Humanities: Johanna Drucker’ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/2013/11/24/speculative-computing-and-the-aesthetics-of-the-humanities-johanna-drucker/ This interview with visual and cultural theorist and practitioner…
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Last weekend I gave a paper at the Resurrecting the Book conference in Birmingham, organised by The Library of Birmingham, Newman University, the Typographic Hub at Birmingham City University and The Library of Lost Books to celebrate the opening of the new public Library of Birmingham in the UK. Underneath some of my notes pertaining to what I thought…
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Transmediale presentation: Paperbound – Cultural Imaginaries and Practices in the Epoch of Paper
Last January Gary Hall and I presented our paper ‘The Political Nature of the Boundless Book: On Artists’ Books and Radical Open Access’, at Transmediale, as part of the panel Paperbound– Cultural Imaginaries and Practices in the Epoch of Paper, chaired by Alessandro Ludovico and also featuring Lothar Müller and Markus Krajewski. The videos of…