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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.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …

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

Gary Hall - Media gifts - Defunding, Activating, and the Afterlives of Culture: Roger Malina On Defund Culture and Activating Fluxus Roger Malina , Defunding, Activating, and the Afterlives of Culture: On Gary Hall’s Def...

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...

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal

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...

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

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.

OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2026 Call & Guidance - Open Book Collective The Open Book Collective is pleased to launch the third call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund. This document outlines the det…

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.

What next for community-led open access book publishing? Join Copim for a free two day hybrid conference!

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...

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…

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...

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?

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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…

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

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...

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...

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...

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Judith Butler Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley "Antisemitism" Files Handed to Trump Admin

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...

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.

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:

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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.

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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: enlace@17edu.org