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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 1d

Rebekka Kiesewetter has posted some thoughts on the Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism conference (Cambridge, April, 2025):

radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/reflections-...

Well worth a read.

Reflections on Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism – Radical Open Access Collective

radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 2d

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Decentring Ethics: AI Art as Method, eds Vanessa Bartlett, Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Emilie K. Sunde

Like all OHP books, Decentring Ethics is available open access and is free to download:

www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

Open Humanities Press– Decentring Ethics

A scholar led open access publishing collective

www.openhumanitiespress.org

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 15d

Jimmy Kimmel is one thing (and good to see he's back on tonight). But they’re going after Judith Butler now?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUWP...

Judith Butler Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley "Antisemitism" Files Handed to Trump Admin

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 20d

Computer Arts Society:

'Liquidate AI Art'

Speaker: Gary Hall; Moderator: Sean Clark
18:00 BST, Weds, 15 October 2025

This event is via Zoom only and is free but you need book a place here:

computerartssociety151025.eventbrite.co.uk

Webinar: Liquidate AI Art - Computer Arts Society

This talk expands on Gary Hall's recent book ‘Masked Media’ and references the International Coalition for the Liquidation of Art.

ComputerArtsSociety151025.eventbrite.co.uk

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 21d

The book as financial experiment:

HTTPS://SUBSTACK.COM/REDIRECT/F0B822D1-18AA-4D67-829A-6D664C808A4C?J=EYJ1IJOIMWL1CXFIIN0.B5SKQCF1USHU2LYBB1SCVTQFIQ5AYQ5CKRWANQ2X2J8

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET contains citations by 46 people. When you buy this book, they will split a percentage of profits.

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 27d

Just a reminder of this online symposium tomorrow: discussion of Gary Hall's new book, Masked Media: What It Means to be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by OHP.

#openaccess: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

To join this event online, email: [email protected]

Book cover image - white lettering on black background, and accompanying text.

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 28d

Continuing with the artists book theme… here is
Chance Would Be A Fine Thing

metalabel-ktav.metalabel.com/chance-would...

Created by Bangkok-based design-art collective COPODE, each book contains 100 designs and an essay about chance combinations using custom-made auto-layout software.

Chance Would Be A Fine Thing (Limited Edition 100 Books)

Created by the Bangkok-based international design-art collective COPODE, this is a limited run of 100 numbered A5 printed books. We are making 50 copies available on Metalabel. Each book contains 100 ...

metalabel-ktav.metalabel.com

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 29d

Recently posted on Gary Hall's Media Gifts blog:

Commons vs Creative Commons III: Some Problems, Distinctions and Alternatives - Including CC's Response to AI

garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025...

III: CC and AI * CC is Not a Commons * Commons and CC: Some Distinctions * Alternatives to CC

Gary Hall - Media gifts - The Commons vs Creative Commons III: Some Problems, Distinctions and Alternatives - Including Signals, CC's Response to AI

This is the third part of an initial 5,000 word draft of a specially commissioned piece on the com...

garyhall.squarespace.com

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Sep 8

GLUE Artist Book Fair & Creative Programme – New at the ICA! 13–14 September 2025 | 12–7 pm (exhibitions until 9 pm)

A weekend-long celebration of independent and DIY publishing with over 70 publishers showcasing emergent artist books, zines, and hybrid editions.

ica.art/talks/glue-i...

ICA | GLUE: Book Fair and Creative Programme

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

ica.art

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Journal of Electronic Publishing has announced the publication of their new special issue on #Publishing and #ClimateJustice, ed by Janneke Adema.

Please share with anyone in your network who may be interested in Publishing and Climate Justice!

journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38...

The Journal of Electronic Publishing | Issue: Issue: 2(28) Publishing and Climate Justice (2025)

journals.publishing.umich.edu

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Joanna Zylinska @joannazylinska.bsky.social · Sep 2

Online symposium: discussion of Gary Hall's new book, Masked Media: What It Means to be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by @openhumanities.bsky.social
#openaccess: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

Fri 12 Sept 2025, ZOOM (9.30am MX, 16.30 UK)

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Sep 2

Experimental Publishing in Practice: Collaborative and Digital Tools
Weds Sept 10, 2pm BST

This online seminar is organised by the Experimental Publishing Group, Post-Publishing research strand, HD LAB, Paideia Editorial & Thoth Open Metadata.

Register here: paideiastudio.net/inscripciones/

Inscripciones - Paideia Studio

Miércoles, 10 de Septiembre, 10AM UTC-3

paideiastudio.net

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Sep 2

Feels like there's an arms race in the AI industry to see who can render the terms "open" and "commons" more meaningless.

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Sep 1

Upcoming exhibition

"Nothing comes without its world! Cornelia Sollfrank & friends" in Berlin

Exhibition at Deutsche Künstlerbund Berlin, 12 September – 21 November 2025.

Opening Friday, 12 September 2025, 6pm

Press release with detailed information:
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

urldefense.com

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · Aug 30

Gorgeous, important book (and open access) that my friend and colleague @jrdwrrn.bsky.social tipped me on to: Michael Marder, Tchernobyl Herbarium (FR/EN - @openhumanities.bsky.social, 2016; #skystorians). anaistondeur.com/chernobyl-he...

CHERNOBYL HERBARIUM — ANAIS TONDEUR

anaistondeur.com

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Aug 27

Please find attached details of an online 12 Sept. event on Gary Hall’s new book from Open Humanities Press:

Masked Media: What It Means to be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence

www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

To join this event online, email: [email protected]

Poster featuring a copy of a book. The cover is mainly in black with lettering in white. The lettering on the post is black and red on a white background.

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Jul 21

A major lawsuit has been filed by Dr Lucina Uddin (UCLA) against Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, T&F, Sage & Wolters Kluwer.

They're accused of running a cartel: exploiting free academic labour, locking in restrictive publishing terms & charging the public 3 times for access to research.

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Jul 16

Culture Machine is happy to announce Vol 25 (2026), University as Infrastructure, will be guest-edited by Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox.

Read the full CfP at Culture Machine’s website: culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...

CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure

Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …

culturemachine.net

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Jun 27

Very much liking the open access statement from Minor Compositions. You can find a copy at the beginning of Marc Garrett’s new memoir about being a working-class artist, Feral Class: www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561

Feral Class – Minor Compositions

www.minorcompositions.info

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Jun 25

Gary Hall & Joanna Zylinska, 'A Brief History of Writing': thewritingplatform.com/2024/05/a-br...

Recent thinking on reading and the humanities in the AI age to sit alongside D. Graham Burnett, ‘Will the Humanities Survive AI?’ & Joshua Rothman, ‘What’s Happening to Reading" in The New Yorker.

A Brief History of Writing: From Human Meaning to Computational Pattern Recognition and Beyond

thewritingplatform.com

Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Jun 24

Nice piece by Ezequiel Soriano on shitpublishing: networkcultures.org/longform/202...

‘Shitpublishing is a performance that implies the gesture of publishing. We should not interpret these creative acts by actually reading the books, but through considering the act of publishing.’

From Shitposting to Shitpublishing

These last years I have been spending my time publishing nonsensical books of illegible, plagiarized, stunning, low-quality, sublime, and uncanny content. I was developing a weird publishing project t

networkcultures.org

Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Jun 18

Choosing open access for books: An author journey
25th June 2025 13:00-14:00 online.
Dr. Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University) is the Research Lead for the Open Book Collective.
From traditional publishing to choosing a scholar-led OA press.

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ad8...

Choosing open access for books: An author journey

This event describes the author’s journey from traditional academic publishing to choosing a new, scholar-led OA press for books. It addresses some of the common questions, roadblocks and concerns aca...

talks.ox.ac.uk

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Jun 17

This Art & The Book event at the Warburg Institute celebrating artists who make, publish, and collect books looks brilliant.

warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/art-a...

Definitely one for art and book lovers, publishers & bibliophiles.

Art & The Book

warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Joanna Zylinska @joannazylinska.bsky.social · Jun 17

Delighted with this new groundbreaking book in my MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series for @openhumanities.bsky.social =>

* Barbarian Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts *
edited by Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez

Open access: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · Jun 16

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who passed away last month, was a founding Editorial Board member of OHP back in 2008. His support — when an OA press for books was unheard of — meant more than we can say. Here's are some of the obituaries
www.indiependent.co.uk/ngugi-wa-thi...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o obituary : The Indiependent

Following the death of author and academic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Arthur Clinton considers his life and legacy.

www.indiependent.co.uk

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