Open Humanities Press
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Open Humanities Press
@openhumanities.bsky.social
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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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
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
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
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
K. Verlag have published Bernard Stiegler’s final work:
The Immense Regression: What is Called Caring? Volume 1

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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
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
A scholar led open access publishing collective
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October 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
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
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
www.openhumanitiespress.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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
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.
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September 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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
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: enlace@17edu.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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
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
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
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
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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)
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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/
Inscripciones - Paideia Studio
Miércoles, 10 de Septiembre, 10AM UTC-3
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September 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Feels like there's an arms race in the AI industry to see who can render the terms "open" and "commons" more meaningless.
September 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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:
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September 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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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...
CHERNOBYL HERBARIUM — ANAIS TONDEUR
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August 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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: enlace@17edu.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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.
July 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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...
CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure
Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure  Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox  …
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July 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM