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...

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)

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/

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

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:/...

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...

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]

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.

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...

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

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.

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.’

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...

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.

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...

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...

New book from our fellow members of the Radical Open Access Collective, the Institute of Network Cultures: The Rise of the Network Commons: A History of Community Infrastructure, by Armin Medosch networkcultures.org/blog/publica...

What I'm thinking about today, Fredric Jameson style—historicizing the historical development of literary criticism and cultural theory, 1968–2015. Namely, cognitive overload— And the complete absence of its consideration.

Join us TODAY for our workshop @aeup-eu.bsky.social conference in Vienna 👉 Scaling Small: Horizontal Collaboration based on Open Values and Interoperability to Sustain Open Workflows in OA Book Publishing ⏲️ 15:30 🔗 buff.ly/ye6ge7I @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Spinoza and Feminism — free online seminar w/ Hasana Sharp Sat 14 June, 17:00 BST Details: culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to... Part of the From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality series, hosted by Culture, Power, Politics. Held on Zoom | Free + open to all

The Media Theory journal is organising its inaugural conference. November 7-8, 2025 at the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto. The cfp is here: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

mediastudies.press has opened its annual proposal window for its 4 series Media Manifold www.mediastudies.press/media-manifo... Public Domain www.mediastudies.press/public-domai... Open Reader www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-... History of Media Studies www.mediastudies.press/history-of-m...

We’re excited to announce that a Spanish translation of Gary Hall’s Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence will be published by Ediciones mimesis next year: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... edicionesmimesis.cl

We're excited to introduce our new online ‘guide of guides’ #CopimCompass 🧭 This comprehensive toolkit will support #publishers & #libraries with the latest resources and best practices for publishing #OAbooks 🛠️ Learn more & get started today! 🚀 🔗 buff.ly/evuQYdn #OA #Monographs #LaunchDay

2) Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... 3) AI Art: Machine Visions and Warped Dreams by Joanna Zylinska www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...