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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
The online conference on experimental publishing practices is taking place over two afternoons on Wednesday 8 April (14:30–16:30 BST) and Thursday 9 April (14:00–17:30 BST).
Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practicing... note that registration is for both days)
Announcing a presentation by Leonardo Impett, 'Workers are Leaving the Factory – world models and AI after cinema' on Wednesday 11th March, 16:00-18:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery. For further details and to book a place go to: lnkd.in/e4nXSK_q.
Publishing is ‘a construct of capitalism’ - Leone Ross
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
If novelists can recognise this, why do so many academics (and publishers) on the left still struggle to?
Spinoza’s Multitude, and Marxism’s: Free online seminar with Michael Hardt
Monday March 16, 17:00-19:00 GMT
Part of the From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality series hosted by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read & Jeremy Gilbert. For more information: culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to....
The full text of Gary Hall's reponse to Response to Curt Rice's 'Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes’ on The Scholarly Kitchen is available here: garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2026...
Excellent post detailing the rationale that lay behind the creation of Open Book Collective and other similar collective funding initiatives.
We have to stop thinking of open access in terms of 'free' content & instead start viewing it as infrastructure and labour that needs systematic funding.
CfP: Special Issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways
journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/
Any questions to JEP co-editors Janneke Adema and Alyssa Arbuckle via jep.editors@gmail.com.
If you haven’t already, check out the podcast from our fellow members of the Radical Open Access Collective, Minor Compositions:
www.minorcompositions.info?page_id=1102
Episodes include:
42: We Are Making a Podcast About Mark Fisher
36: Feral Class
34: Communism After Deleuze
A response to Defund Culture by Roger Malina is available as:
'Defunding, Activating, and the Afterlives of Culture: On Gary Hall’s Defund Culture and Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation, eds Hanna Hölling, Aga Wielocha, and Josephine Ellis': garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2026...
Gary Hall's book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is now out:
www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu...
Published by our friends at mediastudies.press, it's available open access, under the CC4r: Collective Conditions for Re-Use commitment, so please feel free to share widely.
This previously postponed event with OHP author Brian Massumi is now happening on January 21, 4-5:30 PM (EST). He will be addressing Trump as a (fascist) phenomenon and how and why it is happening.
Norms Behaving Badly: Normopathy Today
To register:
saea-tlss.uottawa.ca/en/events/sp...
This piece on 'The 5 stages of the enshittification of academic publishing' is kind of amusing:
theconversation.com/the-5-stages...
Needless to say, we don’t agree with its rather basic take on open access. Nor with the claim that there are no credible alternatives to 'shit' academic publishing.
The Open Book Collective Development Fund Call for Applications 2026 is open from now until March 7.
obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti...
The call and guidance is available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese and applications are welcomed in all these languages.
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
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...
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...
Check out 'Don’t rely on government to save the British Library', by OHP series editor Simon Bowie: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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...
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
uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...
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
Huh, turns out Open Humanities Press is a metalabel. Who knew!
Introducing Metalabel, Yancey Strickler et al (2022) : squad.metalabel.com/introducing-...
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.
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.
housmans.com/event/book-l...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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."
aprja.net
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.
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...