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International, scholar-led, not-for-profit, radical open access publishing collective. Free books, journals and more on theory, culture, media, philosophy, art. Check us out at:

www.openhumanitiespress.org
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The programme for the Copim Conference is now available! Go to the conference registration page for more details (speaker information will be added in the new year).

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-next-...

Date: 26-27 February 2026
Venue: Loughborough University, London or online
What next for community-led open access book publishing?
Join Copim for a free two day hybrid conference!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) has announced the publication of their 30th Anniversary Special Issue, edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema.

This collection celebrates three decades of JEP.

Contents: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/43...
The Journal of Electronic Publishing | Issue: Issue: 3(28) 30th Anniversary Special Issue (2025)
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December 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Culture Machine is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 24 The Aesthetics of Biomachines, guest-edited by Johan Lau Munkholm, Naja Grundtmann, Kristin Veel and Kathrin Maurer, from Copenhagen University and the University of Southern Denmark.

Available OA: culturemachine.net/archives/aes...
Vol.24 Aesthetics of Biomachines
Aesthetics of Biomachines: Guest Editors’ IntroductionJohan Lau Munkholm, Naja Grundtmann, Kristin Veel & Kathrin Maurer Artificial Touch in Contemporary Art and CultureMette-Marie Zach…
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December 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Check out 'Don’t rely on government to save the British Library', by OHP series editor Simon Bowie: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences
Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?
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December 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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OHP is delighted to announce ythe publication of Tom Cohen's book, Ecocide and Inscription vol. 1: Black Ops. Petrolepathy, Escaped Slaves, Cinemacide – A Tele-mnemonics for the After-Times.

Available open access and in colour print from:
www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
Open Humanities Press– Ecocide and Inscription vol. 1 </br>Black Ops
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December 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Delighted to share that Janneke Adema has a new chapter, ‘Experimental Publishing’, in Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, ed by Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay.
The book is available open access - well worth a read

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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Now available for advance ordering and/or free download from Minor Compositions…

A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons
Giovanni Marmont

PDF available freely online:

www.minorcompositions.info?p=1647
A Studious Use – Minor Compositions
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November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Huh, turns out Open Humanities Press is a metalabel. Who knew!

Introducing Metalabel, Yancey Strickler et al (2022) : squad.metalabel.com/introducing-...
Introducing Metalabel
The original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further rese...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I'm included in this cool edited volume on digital sovereignty in the @openhumanities.bsky.social journal Communication + 1

My contribution is entitled "Data rights reconsidered: Reimagining digital freedom through Lefebvre’s Right to the City" but the entire volume is worth a read.
Data rights reconsidered: Reimagining digital freedom through Lefebvre’s Right to the City
This article explores an expanded conceptualization of data rights by drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s “right to the city” framework and engaging with the work of contemporary philosopher Byung-Chul Han. I...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Marc Garrett’s *Feral Class: Book Launch. Weds 19th November 2025.

Doors Open 6:45 pm, Event Starts 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm,

Housmans Bookshop. 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DX

Please book in advance to secure a place.
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BOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS with Marc Garrett
Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission Feral Class is Marc Garrett’s deeply personal and thought-provoki…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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mediastudies.press has announce dthe publication of Mapping Goffman’s Invisible College by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz.

www.mediastudies.press/mapping-goff...

The book is available online and as a free download in PDF & ePub. A paperback version is also available.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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A video recording of Gary Hall’s 'Liquidate AI Art' talk for the Computer Arts Society on 15 October is now available: www.bcs.org/events-calen...
Webinar: Liquidate AI Art | BCS
This talk expands on Gary Hall's recent book ‘Masked Media’ and references the International Coalition for the Liquidation of Art. Join us on Wednesday, 15 Oct 2025, 6:30pm-9:00pm
www.bcs.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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K. Verlag have published Bernard Stiegler’s final work:
The Immense Regression: What is Called Caring? Volume 1

kverlag.com/collections/...

You can read and download translator Daniel Ross’s introduction here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1kWj2...
The Immense Regression
This book is currently at the printer’s and your shipping will be fulfilled as soon as it is launched in October 2025. Please don't hesitate to pre-order your copy now. Did we truly understand Nietzsc...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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OHP has published a 2nd edition of Timothy Morton's Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality. Comes complete with a new preface by Morton.

Like all OHP books, Realist Magic is available open access: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...
Open Humanities Press– Realist Magic
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October 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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A new issue of A Peer-Reviewed Journal About has been published. “Everything is a Matter of Distance”, edited by Magda Tyzlik-Carver and Pablo Velasco. The issue follows on from a workshop held at transmediale festival, 2025, and relates to the festival theme, "(near) near but — far."

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A Peer-Reviewed Journal About
APRJA is an open-access research journal that addresses the ever-shifting thematic frameworks of digital culture.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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
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October 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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
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October 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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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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September 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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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
September 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The book as financial experiment:

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A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET contains citations by 46 people. When you buy this book, they will split a percentage of profits.
September 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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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.
September 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Continuing with the artists book theme… here is
Chance Would Be A Fine Thing

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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 ...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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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

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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...
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September 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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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.

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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...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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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)
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September 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM