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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 3h

punctum is a founding member of the Open Book Collective, a unique community for raising money to support Diamond #OpenAccess book publishing & the development of open infrastructures that support OA publishers. Representing presses & developers in Africa, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the US!

Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 13h

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress

The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 1d

Day 2 of the National OA Summit in Nigeria. Kicking off with @copim.bsky.social colleagues Mary Felix-Maina from @doabooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social & Vincent van Gerven Oei from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social talking about trust, metadata & discoverability for books

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Vincent van Gerven Oei projected onto a large screen above a stage, with onlooking audience in the foreground

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Jenny @jtownes.bsky.social · 2d

An excellent diversion.

punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Are the executive orders getting you down? Caught between $100,000 immigration visas & making federal architecture beautiful again? You NEED the People's EXECUTIVE ORDERS:

By the fleece vested in us, we hereby order a freezer cake!

#OpenAccess & FREE to download:

tinyurl.com/zsrat342

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Are the executive orders getting you down? Caught between $100,000 immigration visas & making federal architecture beautiful again? You NEED the People's EXECUTIVE ORDERS:

By the fleece vested in us, we hereby order a freezer cake!

#OpenAccess & FREE to download:

tinyurl.com/zsrat342

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #Caturday!

*artwork by Matt McCarthy, mrmattmccarthy.com

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 5d

CROSSINGS: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms shows how the arts & the humanities can meet the ethical demands that the reality of mass displacement places on us, in a way that governments & institutions have failed to do.

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess & FREE to download!

tinyurl.com/2s3686hm

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, Marilyn Monroe, orgies, missing children, Mickey Mouse, zombies, Nazis, shock therapy, surf music & the psycho-history of the 20th century.

COMING THIS FALL: a new, updated edition of Laurence Rickels's 1991 THE CASE OF CALIFORNIA:

tinyurl.com/4um26dza

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 7d

This important national summit will bring together authors, editors, librarians, university leaders, funders & policymakers to advance a coordinated, community-led framework for #OpenAccess book publishing in Nigeria 🤝

✈️ @joedeville.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social

Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 7d

1/ Open Book Collective is proud to be supporting next week's conference in Abuja on 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty: Nigeria’s National Summit on Open Access Book Publishing', with OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social speaking alongside a number of @copim.bsky.social colleagues
oa-summit.bookhub.ng

Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty — OAConference 2025

Nigeria’s National Open Access Stakeholders Conference — Oct 6–7, 2025 at NOUN, Abuja.

oa-summit.bookhub.ng

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Will be released Thursday or Friday of this week!

punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Once the soul leaves the body, he will not fly to the monstrous shrine where all the war dead went & continue to go, but to that farm by the river where white shy herons glide in the quiet sky.

Read IMAGINARY DEATH by Mariko Nagai, published #OpenAccess & FREE to download:

tinyurl.com/4nhr37xx

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 8d

Oh! The fabulous Natalya Din-Kariuki speaking and announcing that the publication of Crossing @punctumbooks.bsky.social is immanent!

Get your copy: punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Book cover of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 9d

cover reveal >> DRAG EDUCATION: RuPaul, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Teaching by Ryan Tracy

[---book #3 in the Risking Education series co-edited by Ansgar Allen & Emile Bojesen---]

punctumbooks.com/titles/drag-... @punctumbooks.bsky.social #RuPaul #queertheory

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 11d

HAPPY #CATURDAY!

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 12d

In the tradition of Agee & Evans’s "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," IMAGINARY DEATH is part meditation, part history & part memory fragments, telling a story of a Japanese soldier’s life and death during World War II.

#OpenAccess & FREE to download:

tinyurl.com/4nhr37xx

#trauma #war #history

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 12d

The book is currently in copy-editing; edited volumes take a bit longer than monographs, so expect this to be out within 4-6 months.

punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 13d

Why has the #OpenAccess community not mounted a collective response to the armies of bots scraping open repositories for content to feed large-scale language models (LLMs) owned by mega-AI corporations? How open is open, anyway?

Read our response to Bartz v. Anthropic:

tinyurl.com/yp55364c

AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 14d

How to puncture prevalent European understandings of the Mediterranean? The colonizing impulse inscribed in Western historiography can't be undone by adding previously repressed & unacknowledged histories.

THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION: new coordinates for another Mediterranean.

tinyurl.com/yv9svw25

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Check it out: a NEW BOOKS NETWORK podcast with punctum editors of the #OpenAccess book, HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES!

#gaming #GameStudies #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities

Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him) @gamestudies.bsky.social · 21d

Here we go again!
A new #Gamestudies #podcast episode is live & and
I had wonderful guests!

Historiographies of Game Studies. What It Has Been, What It Could Be (ed. Alisha Karabinus, Carly A. Kocurek, Cody Mejeur, Emma Vossen)

/cc @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Please listen, like and share!

Alisha Karabinus et al. eds., "Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (Punctum Books, 2025) - New Books Network

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Enable #OpenAccess books to fly around the world & be accessible to everyone, no matter their means, by becoming a subscriber! For $10, $15, $20 or $25/month, you can help power punctum's flying book machine.

Help make the MAGIC happen!

punctumbooks.com/support/

#GIVE #DONATE

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ALT: a black and white photo of a car driving down a dirt road .

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 20d

Why has the #OpenAccess community not mounted a collective response to the armies of bots scraping open repositories for content to feed to large-scale language models (LLMs) owned by mega-AI corporations? How open is open, anyway?

Read our response to Bartz v. Anthropic:

tinyurl.com/yp55364c

AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response

tinyurl.com

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 21d

Insisting that present knowledge is sustained in asymmetrical relations of power, THE MEDITERRANEAN QUESTION casts a critical light on the deeper African & Asian Mediterranean(s) that have been obscured in Western histories & archives.

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess!

DOWNLOAD: tinyurl.com/yv9svw25

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 22d

WATCH our screening of 2 films by punctum author Sarah Rosenthal, "Lizard Song" & "We Agree on the Sun."

Download Sarah & Valerie Witte's book ONE THING FOLLOWS ANOTHER: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life here: tinyurl.com/4vx9tnt4

#SimoneForti #YvonneRainer

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Encounters at the End of the Book | Film Screenings for One Thing Follows Another

Encounters at the End of the Book | Film Screenings for One Thing Follows Another: Experiments in Dance, Art, and Life through the Lens of Simone Forti and Yvonne…

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 23d

New bookmarks! We’ll be giving these away at Charleston Conference in Nov. 2025, MLA meeting in Toronto in Jan. 2026, and AWP meeting in Baltimore in March 2026. #OpenAccess #books

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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · 25d

Essential reading: “AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response” doi.org/10.21428/ae6... from @punctumbooks.bsky.social

AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response

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punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 26d

"We expect publishers like Taylor & Francis to be non-transparent with NDAs flying around; we expect uni presses like Johns Hopkins UP to be more transparent when making 'deals' around the use of their authors' work."

Read our response to Bartz v. Anthropic here:

tinyurl.com/yp55364c

#OpenAccess

AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response

tinyurl.com

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