Lecture: Culture as Calculation: Technology, Language & the Machine Learning Turn in Times of Polycrisis by Mercedes Bunz + Joanna Zylinska & Alfie Bown 11 June, 5:30 BST Online OR in person: Strand Campus, Nash Lecture Theatre, King's College London Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

mediastudies.press have announced their annual proposal window from 1 June to 31 July, 2026. www.mediastudies.press They currently publish in five series: Media Manifold Public Domain Open Reader History of Media Studies Goffman in the Open

Collapse: A Story King’s College London, Strand Campus, 3 June 5-7pm Free; booking required: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist... Consists of a screening of Joanna Zylinska’s new short film /collapse, followed by a panel discussion with Mercedes Bunz, Sebastián Lehuedé and Eleonora Lima.

Offprint - a publishers’ fair bringing together independent, experimental and socially engaged publishers working across art, architecture, design, the humanities and visual culture - starts today in London. Runs until Sunday. www.offprint.org/en/

Asch Degni & Roger Malina announce the free online publication of their book: DICKY: Mutamorphing Equibipedia of Emerging Words and Phrases artscilab.utdallas.edu/2026/04/28/d... DICKY explores how language emerges through human interaction, error and collaboration with artificial intelligence.

1/ We are pleased to publish a major new evaluation of our work over the past 4 years. Authored by @judithfathallah.bsky.social y.social and @joedeville.bsky.social, the report brings together research with a range of OBC stakeholders, with an analysis of OBC's finances obc.copim.pub/obc-stakehol...

The Open Book Futures project may finish today, but the fantastic #CopimCommunity continues! OBF members are booked up well into 2026 so keep an eye on our socials for more info 👀 Join our new mailing list 👉 buff.ly/gP2Q4cw And look out for the final project report, coming soon! #OABooks 1/2

A podcast featuring Sigi Jöttkandt, Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall from Open Humanities Press, titled 'Friendship, and Other Ways of Producing Knowledge', is now available on the Scholē IRL website. www.scholeirl.org And on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuu...

Together with Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur, OHP invites you to mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with the 2nd edition of The Chernobyl Herbarium. Available for download OA at www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... With our best wishes, Sigi, Gary, Joanna, David

Announcement: publication of 'Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences', new special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, edited by Samuel Moore (Cambridge), Jenni Adams (Sheffield) and Miranda Barnes (Cambridge). journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/

The recording of Gary Hall’s discussion of Defund Culture for Breaking Culture Live is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbY... Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available OA on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats from medistudies.press: www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu...

OHP's Gary Hall will be discussing his new book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal (www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu...) in the next episode of Breaking Culture Live tomorrow, broadcast on their YouTube channel at noon NYC time: www.youtube.com/@BreakingCul...

Postdigital Intimacies: Relational Lives in the Networked Public–Private, edited by Adrienne Evans, Jamie Hakim, Jessica Ringrose, Amy Shields Dobson and Shaka McGlotten New open access book from UCL Press. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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 [email protected].

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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]

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.

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

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...

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...