[spectre] 'Publishing After Progress' special issue of Culture Machine

[Gary Hall]

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the release of Publishing after Progress
<https://culturemachine.net/archives/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/>,
a special issue of the//open access journal /Culture Machine/,
guest-edited by Rebekka Kiesewetter:


https://culturemachine.net/archives/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/



_Contents:_

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*/Culture Machine/**• Vol 23 • 2024 • Special Issue: Publishing after
Progress*

Kiesewetter, R. (2024) ‘Guest Editorial Notes (after Progress?)’,
/Culture Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/rebekka-kiesewetter-guest-editorial-notes/

Kember, S. (2024) ‘Householding. A feminist ecological economics of
publishing’, /Culture Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/kember-householding/

Pooley, J. (2024) ‘Before Progress. On the Power of Utopian Thinking for
Open Access Publishing’, /Culture Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/jeff-pooley-before-progress/

Godínez-Larios, S. & Aguado-López E. (2024) ‘Publicación digital y
preservación de los communes: una apuesta tecnológica latinoamericana’,
/Culture Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/godinez-y-aguado-apuesta-tecnologica-latinoamericana/

Kolb, L. (2024) ‘Sharing Knowledge in the Arts: Creating the
Publics-We-Need’, /Culture Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/kolb-sharing-knowledge-in-the-arts/

Kiesewetter, R. (2024) ‘Experiments towards Editing Otherwise’, /Culture
Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/kiesewetter-experiments-toward-editing-otherwise/

Adema, J. (2024) ‘Experimental Publishing as Collective Struggle.
Providing Imaginaries for Posthumanist Knowledge Production’, /Culture
Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/adema-experimental-publishing-collective-struggle/

Magazine, R. & Méndez Cota, G. (2024) ‘Reverse Scholarship as Solidarity
after Progress’, /Culture Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/magazine-mendez-reverse-scholarship/

Snelting, F. & Weinmayr, E. (2024) ‘Committing to decolonial feminist
practices of reuse’, /Culture Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/snelting-weinmayr-decolonial-feminist-reuse/

Groten, A. (2024) ‘Designing sideways. Inefficient publishing as mode of
refusal’ , /Culture Machine/ Vol. 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/groten-designing-sideways-2/

Mussio, V. (2024) ‘Tus libros y poemas bailan y se besan en Internet:
Matrerita, la edición digital y su potencialidad para emancipar cuerpos
en peligro’, /Culture Machine/ 23..
https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/valeria-mussio-tuslibrosypoemasbailan/


_About Publishing After Progress:_
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Publishing After Progress brings together a series of reflections and
discussions that illuminate the current state of scholarly publishing.
It highlights the field's ongoing commercial and technological
consolidation, evolving under the rhetoric of internationalisation,
excellence and modern capitalist progress as an unequivocal benefit. The
issue includes analyses of the wide-ranging geopolitical, epistemic,
social and cognitive effects of this evolution, marked by a focus on
quantifiable outcomes, productivity- and visibility-driven metrics of
success, and individual achievement.

Beyond its diagnostic and analytical scope, Publishing after Progress
explores the tension between contemporary institutional expectations
related to publishing (including research, writing, editing, reviewing,
designing and licensing), and how individuals and communities actually
want to – or already do – engage in their work, based on their values,
expertise and understanding of their writing's needs in light of
persistent inequalities in scholarship and scholarly publishing, as well
as planetary crises and emergencies.

Publishing After Progresstentatively maps out emergent types of
'resistant' research, publishing and scholarship, unveiling diverse and
ongoing stories from activist, artistic and academic authors. These
contributors have begun to address the conflict between institutional
expectations and their own situated visions of what their work requires
in an increasingly troubled and troubling world. Collectively, the
articles grapple with the possibility of a politics of engagement in
publishing beyond a prevailing capitalist ethos of competition and
individual performance evaluation – celebrated by many contemporary
institutions as 'progress' – while practically facilitating spaces to
experiment with what such politics could entail.

In guest-editing this special issue – at a time when disparities in
academia and scholarly communication persist alongside environmental and
humanitarian emergencies – Kiesewetter has endevoured to underscore the
importance of continuously rethinking the value, scope and purpose of
scholarly publishing as well as scholarship more broadly, while
remaining committed to fostering intellectual questioning, rigor, debate
and the radical democratisation of knowledge creation processes in the
sake of knowledge equity and diversity. In this spirit, Publishing after
Progress invites its readers to engage with their own writing, editing,
review, design and publishing activities: not merely as competitive
producers of knowledge, but as active participants in collaboratively
shaping the present and future conditions of academic publishing and
academic work more broadly.

Please share this special issue with anyone who may be interested in it.

--
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/

Director of Open Humanities Press:http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Websitehttp://www.garyhall.info
Follow on Mastodon here: @garyhall at hcommons.social

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