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<span style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64); background:white">In 2019
and 2020, the Centre for Postdigital Cultures
(CPC) will be hosting a series of
symposia exploring contemporary approaches to
experimental publishing</span><span
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">. Over the course of the
series, we will ask questions about the role and
nature of experimentation in publishing, about
ways in which experimental publishing has been
formulated and performed in the past, and ways
in which it shapes our publishing imaginaries at
present. This series aims to conceptualise and
map what experimental publishing is or can be
and to explore what lies behind our aims and
motivations to experiment </span><span
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>through </i></span><span
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">publishing. As such, it
forms the first activity within the CPC’s new </span><a
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color:teal">Post-Publishing programme</span></a><span
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">, an initiative committed
to exploring iterative and processual forms of
publishing and their role in reconceptualising
publishing as an integral part of the research
and writing process, i.e. as that which
inherently shapes it.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><a
href="http://markamerika.com/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="margin:0px">Mark Amerika</span></a></span><span
style="margin:0px;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)">, a Professor of
Distinction at the University of Colorado, has
exhibited his artwork internationally at venues
such as the Whitney Biennial of American Art,
the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London,
and The ZKM | Center for Art and Media in
Karlsruhe, Germany.</span><span
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span style="margin:0px"> <span> </span></span></span><span
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">He is the author of many
books including<span> </span></span><span
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>The Kafka Chronicles</i></span><span
style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(FC2),<span> </span></span><span
style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>Sexual Blood</i></span><span
style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(FC2),<span> </span></span><span
style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>remixthebook</i></span><span
style="margin:0px;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(University
of Minnesota Press—</span><a
href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.remixthebook.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cac8699%40coventry.ac.uk%7C18750fedb8cd44b2a07c08d6cf0e32b1%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C1%7C636924057228008228&sdata=KtibnIQIoTPIjTZEDMdx2JBDpedyVSl5CwKOdoMkqss%3D&reserved=0"
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style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">remixthebook.com</span></a><span
style="margin:0px;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)">),<span> </span></span><span
style="margin:0px;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>META/DATA: A Digital
Poetics</i></span><span style="margin:0px;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(The MIT
Press),<span> </span></span><span
style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>remixthecontext</i></span><span
style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(Routledge),
and<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>Locus Solus (An
Inappropriate Translation Composed in a 21st
Century Manner)</i></span><span
style="margin:0px;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(Counterpath
Press).</span></p>
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<a
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style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New
Roman",Times,serif; color:rgb(17,85,204);
background:white">Nick Thurston</span></a><span
style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New
Roman",Times,serif; color:rgb(64,64,64);
background:white"><span> </span>is a writer and
editor who makes artworks. His most recent books
include the co-edited collection,<span> </span></span><span
style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New
Roman",Times,serif; color:rgb(64,64,64);
background:white"><i>Post-Digital Cultures of
the Far Right</i></span><span
style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New
Roman",Times,serif; color:rgb(64,64,64);
background:white"><span> </span>(Bielefeld:
Transcript, 2018), and an experimental
Spanish-language translation of his last poetic
book by NO_LIBROS (Barcelona, 2019). Recent and
current exhibitions include shows at
Transmediale (Berlin, 2018), Q21 (Vienna, 2018),
MuHKA (Antwerp, 2018) and HMKV (Dortmund, 2019).</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;
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<span style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">Experimental publishing can
be positioned as an intervention, a mode of
critique, and a tool of speculation. It is a way
of thinking about writing and publishing today
that has at its centre a commitment to
questioning and breaking down distinctions
between practice and theory, criticality and
creativity, and between the scholarly and the
artistic.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">In this series of events we
propose to explore contemporary approaches to
experimental publishing as:</span></p>
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<li><i><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">an ongoing critique</span></i><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)"> of our current
publishing systems and practices,
deconstructing existing hegemonies and
questioning the fixtures in publishing to
which we have grown accustomed—from the book
as a stable object to single authorship and
copyright.</span></li>
<li><i><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)">an affirmative practice</span></i><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)"> which offers means to
re-perform our existing writerly, research,
and publishing institutions and practices </span><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>through</i></span><span
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"> publishing experiments.</span></li>
<li><i><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">a speculative practice</span></i><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)"> that makes possible an
exploration of different futures for writing
and research, and the emergence of new,
potentially more inclusive forms, genres, and
spaces of publishing, open to ambivalence and
failure.</span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
color:rgb(64,64,64)">This take on experimentation
can be understood as a heterogeneous,
unpredictable, and uncontained </span><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>process</i></span><span
style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
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color:rgb(64,64,64)">, one that leaves the
critical potentiality of the book as a medium open
to new intellectual, political, and economic
contingencies.</span><br>
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Gary Hall, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Professor of Media, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
LATEST:
'Open Humanities Press – The Inhumanist Manifesto', Journal of Peer Production #13: OPEN, April (2019)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-13-open/open-access-bouillabaisse/open-humanities-press-the-inhumanist-manifesto/">http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-13-open/open-access-bouillabaisse/open-humanities-press-the-inhumanist-manifesto/</a>
‘Pirate Philosophy’, This Is Not A Pipe Podcast (2018)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tinapp.org/episodes/piratephilosophy">https://www.tinapp.org/episodes/piratephilosophy</a>
HyperCritical Theory
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/osc/2018/10/22/innovation-in-scholarly-communication-liquid-books/">https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/osc/2018/10/22/innovation-in-scholarly-communication-liquid-books/</a>
Übercapitalism and What Can Be Done About It (2018)
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