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        <span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 24pt;">Experimental
          Publishing II – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation</span><br>
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                        font-family:Avenir; color:rgb(5,104,92)">A
                        half-day symposium with talks by Mark Amerika
                        (UC Boulder) and Nick Thurston (University of
                        Leeds)</span><span style="margin:0px;
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                      <b><span style="margin:0px;
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                          color:rgb(64,64,64)">2:15-5:30pm May 28</span></b><span
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><b>Centre for Postdigital
                          Cultures</b></span><span style="margin:0px;
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><b>Coventry University</b></span><span
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><b>Registration (free):<span> </span></b></span><span
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href="https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/experimental-publishing-ii2/"
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                          style="margin:0px" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/experimental-publishing-ii2/</a></span><u><span
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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
                        href="https://post-publishing.org/"
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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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                          href="http://markamerika.com/" target="_blank"
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                            style="margin:0px">Mark Amerika</span></a></span><span
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                        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)">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
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(FC2),<span> </span></span><span
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>Sexual Blood</i></span><span
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(FC2),<span> </span></span><span
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>remixthebook</i></span><span
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(University
                        of Minnesota Press—</span><a
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                          color:rgb(64,64,64)">remixthebook.com</span></a><span
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)">),<span> </span></span><span
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>META/DATA: A Digital
                          Poetics</i></span><span style="margin:0px;
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><span> </span>(The MIT
                        Press),<span> </span></span><span
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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;
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                        color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>Locus Solus (An
                          Inappropriate Translation Composed in a 21st
                          Century Manner)</i></span><span
                        style="margin:0px;
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                        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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                          color:rgb(64,64,64)">Concept</span></b><span
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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
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                          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;
                          font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
                          color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>through</i></span><span
                          style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
                          font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
                          color:rgb(64,64,64)"> publishing experiments.</span></li>
                      <li><i><span style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
                            font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
                            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>
                    <br>
                    <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;
                      font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
                      color:rgb(64,64,64)"><i>process</i></span><span
                      style="margin:0px; font-size:12pt;
                      font-family:"Quattrocento Sans";
                      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>
                    <br>
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                  <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
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> 

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‘Pirate Philosophy’, This Is Not A Pipe Podcast (2018)
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HyperCritical Theory
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Übercapitalism and What Can Be Done About It (2018)
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