Tag: Publishing
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Academia.edu and Self-Branding
Last week I was invited to give a talk at UCSB Library. Underneath you can find a transcript of my talk and a selection of my slides. Academia.edu & Self-Branding: The Metricisation of Scholars and Scholarly Networks Today I will be discussing two topics which are directly related: the growing use by academics of commercial…
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Special Issue: The disrupted Journal of Media Practice – 6 Conversations around Media Practice – Join in Now!
Underneath the announcement of the special issue we are collaboratively editing for the Journal of Media Practice. I have submitted a paper on ‘Performative Publications’ which I will be writing in hypothes.is, an open annotation software. I will write my paper in installments during the course of the conversations on the platform from July until September. I…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…