Tag: Books
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New Report: “Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing”
Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing is a three-part research and scoping report which serves as a resource for the scholarly community, especially for authors and publishers interested in pursuing more experimental forms of book publishing. The first two parts of this report situate experimental books in the context of academic research and publishing, and…
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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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Radical Open Access and The Politics of Publishing. A Genealogy of Affinities and Correlations
A bit belated (I will be uploading some talks I gave during the last months in the next few days), underneath the paper I gave at the Radical Open Access conference, which we hosted at Coventry University 15-16th of June. The videos from this event will be available soon, and I will announce them here…
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Technogenesis and Media Specific Analysis: N. Katherine Hayles
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: ‘Technogenesis and Media Specific Analysis: N. Katherine Hayles‘ http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/e/technogenesis-and-media-specific-analysis-n-katherine-hayles/ This interview with literary scholar N. Katherine Hayles by Janneke Adema…
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New Models of Knowledge Production. Open Access Publishing and Experimental Research Practices (Part III)
Chapter 5 of my thesis focuses on opportunities to intervene in the current cultures of knowledge production in academia and publishing, exploring efforts to rethink and re-perform the institutions surrounding the material production of the book, as well as our own entangled scholarly communication and publishing practices. I focus in particular in this chapter on…
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New Models of Knowledge Production. Open Access Publishing and Experimental Research Practices (Part I)
Chapter 5 of my thesis focuses on opportunities to intervene in the current cultures of knowledge production in academia and publishing, exploring efforts to rethink and re-perform the institutions surrounding the material production of the book, as well as our own entangled scholarly communication and publishing practices. I focus in particular in this chapter on…
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The Monograph Crisis Revisited
Last week, on the 22nd of January, the report Monographs and Open Access, written by Geoffrey Crossick for HEFCE, was released. I would like to respond to the specific way in which the monograph crisis is described and represented in this report. I want to do so by emphasising the multiple dimensions as well as…
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Narratives of Book Formation (Part II)
Chapter 4 of my thesis focuses on the genealogy of the (discourse surrounding) scholarly systems of material production and the book as commodity. You can find a draft of the second part of this chapter underneath. As always, any feedback is more than welcome. You can find part 1 here. For chapter 2 of my…
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Narratives of Book Formation (Part I)
Chapter 4 of my thesis focuses on the genealogy of the (discourse surrounding) scholarly systems of material production and the book as commodity. You can find a draft of the first part of this chapter underneath, including an introduction to the 2nd section of my thesis, which also includes chapter 5, which I will publish…
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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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Framing the debate (II) Historical Discourses: The Struggle for Both the Past & Future of the Book
Underneath the second part of the 2nd chapter of my thesis. For the first part, see here. Representationalist discourse If we look at this debate between Johns and Eisenstein in more depth, we can see that, although I have outlined and emphasised the main differences between the two thinkers, both are anxious not to…
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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…