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The End of Management + Two New Books (AI Resistance + Transit Asia) The latest edition of Open Humanities, the newsletter of Open Humanities Press, is now available (for free): openhumanities.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Persuasive argument presenting Mark Fisher as at heart a journalist more than a cultural theorist. Romulo Moraes, ‘Mark Fisher Was Kind of Dumb’, Substack, October 6, 2026: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Last night’s talk by Gabriel Menotti and German Nunez at King’s College London, drawing on their experience of editing Barbarian Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts, was a great success. The book is available open access: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Transit Asia Critical Concepts edited by Joyce C. H. Liu, Brett Neilson, Karin Oen-Lee and Ned Rossiter www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... Like all OHP books, Transit Asia Critical Concepts is available open access (free)

My paper copies of Barbarian Currents: Half a Century of Brazilian Media Arts, have arrived. Brings together artists, critics + curators who played a pivotal role in the technological arts in post-war Brazil. Available open access (= free) from OHP: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

New open access (free) book from Open Humanities Press: CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo. www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... Published in the SeedBooks series.

Public Knowledge: Online Seminar Series on Expanded Ecologies of Publishing Wednesdays, 10am ET | October 21 – November 25, 2026 Free | Online via Zoom besidesthescreen.com/publicknowledge Participation free. Full program and register for individual sessions at besidesthescreen.com/publicknowledge

Other Art Histories 13 Oct 2026 6:00 PM King’s College London, Strand, Bush House, South East Wing, WC2R 1AE Centre for Ecologies of Attention and Perception at King’s invites you to this talk on reframing the history of art history. Free, booking required: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Aaron Mok’s report on Sente Labs’ launch of OpenExecutive – a free, open-source AI system designed to replace CEOs – makes a nice follow-on to our latest Open Humanities newsletter, It’s the End of the World as We Know It: openhumanities.substack.com/p/its-the-en... www.inc.com/aaron-mok/th...

‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It: So What Kind of AI Do We Actually Want?’ — latest issue of the Open Humanities newsletter — went out today. It features Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI and Karen Hao’s Empire of AI. openhumanities.substack.com/p/its-the-en...

Creative AI Lab presents: book launch ‘Vector Media’ (Minnesota Press + Meson Press) 22 Sept. 2026, 16.30h KCL With Leonardo Impett (Cambridge), Fabian Offert (UC Santa Barbara), Joanna Zylinska (KCL), Daniel Chavez Heras (KCL) chair: Mercedes Bunz (KCL) Register: buytickets.at/digitalhuman...

Bernd Herzogenrath and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo eds. CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance – @openhumanities.bsky.social, 2026 (open access) www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

Affect and Conjuncture. A free online seminar with Lawrence Grossberg September 19th 2026, 17:00-19:00 BST For details of the seminar and the series to which it contributes, see: culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to...

'What If We Stopped Trying to Save the University?', the latest edition of the OHP newsletter is now available: openhumanities.substack.com/p/what-if-we... Includes The Insecure University, What Comes After the Liberal Institution, Learning to Work Differently, and The Violence of Not Belonging.

‘August Reads ... and Listens’, the latest edition of the Open Humanities newsletter is now available: openhumanities.substack.com/p/august-rea... Includes a summer 2026 music playlist specially curated for Open Humanities by Mark Amerika.

The latest edition of Open Humanities, the newsletter of Open Humanities Press, is now available: openhumanities.substack.com/p/who-will-f... It explores what the shift from search to chat means for open access publishing, and considers three possible responses.

A reminder that the annual proposal window of mediastudies.presss, the scholar-led and nonprofit OA publisher, will close on July 31, 2026. mediastudies.press welcomes submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form

We're pleased to announce that Open Humanities Press is launching a Substack newsletter: Open Humanities. openhumanities.substack.com/p/welcome-to... Like Open Humanities Press itself, the newsletter is open and free, and will remain so. Subscribe here: openhumanities.substack.com/subscribe

The 'Stimulating Media: Cognitive and Sensory Approaches' issue (10.1) of Media Theory has just been published: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt... Edited by Tony Sampson, Jernej Markelj and Diana Lengua.

Call for Papers Multisensory XR: From ‘Tech for Good’ to Ethical Immersive Experience International conference 6-7 January 2027 Centre for the Ecologies of Attention and Perception King’s College London, London, UK Submit: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Deadline: 1 Sept 2026

The Scholarly Letter invites submissions on Scholarship in the Age of the On-lightenmentt that grapple with what it means to pursue scholarship within platformed, curated, and fragmented conditions of illumination. Deadline: 2 August Honorarium: $150 Email: thescholarlyletter@scholar-square.com

Lecture: Culture as Calculation: Technology, Language & the Machine Learning Turn in Times of Polycrisis by Mercedes Bunz + Joanna Zylinska & Alfie Bown 11 June, 5:30 BST Online OR in person: Strand Campus, Nash Lecture Theatre, King's College London Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

mediastudies.press have announced their annual proposal window from 1 June to 31 July, 2026. www.mediastudies.press They currently publish in five series: Media Manifold Public Domain Open Reader History of Media Studies Goffman in the Open

Collapse: A Story King’s College London, Strand Campus, 3 June 5-7pm Free; booking required: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist... Consists of a screening of Joanna Zylinska’s new short film /collapse, followed by a panel discussion with Mercedes Bunz, Sebastián Lehuedé and Eleonora Lima.

Offprint - a publishers’ fair bringing together independent, experimental and socially engaged publishers working across art, architecture, design, the humanities and visual culture - starts today in London. Runs until Sunday. www.offprint.org/en/

Asch Degni & Roger Malina announce the free online publication of their book: DICKY: Mutamorphing Equibipedia of Emerging Words and Phrases artscilab.utdallas.edu/2026/04/28/d... DICKY explores how language emerges through human interaction, error and collaboration with artificial intelligence.

1/ We are pleased to publish a major new evaluation of our work over the past 4 years. Authored by @judithfathallah.bsky.social y.social and @joedeville.bsky.social, the report brings together research with a range of OBC stakeholders, with an analysis of OBC's finances obc.copim.pub/obc-stakehol...

The Open Book Futures project may finish today, but the fantastic #CopimCommunity continues! OBF members are booked up well into 2026 so keep an eye on our socials for more info 👀 Join our new mailing list 👉 buff.ly/gP2Q4cw And look out for the final project report, coming soon! #OABooks 1/2

A podcast featuring Sigi Jöttkandt, Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall from Open Humanities Press, titled 'Friendship, and Other Ways of Producing Knowledge', is now available on the Scholē IRL website. www.scholeirl.org And on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuu...

Together with Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur, OHP invites you to mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with the 2nd edition of The Chernobyl Herbarium. Available for download OA at www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... With our best wishes, Sigi, Gary, Joanna, David

Announcement: publication of 'Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences', new special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, edited by Samuel Moore (Cambridge), Jenni Adams (Sheffield) and Miranda Barnes (Cambridge). journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/

The recording of Gary Hall’s discussion of Defund Culture for Breaking Culture Live is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbY... Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available OA on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats from medistudies.press: www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu...

OHP's Gary Hall will be discussing his new book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal (www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu...) in the next episode of Breaking Culture Live tomorrow, broadcast on their YouTube channel at noon NYC time: www.youtube.com/@BreakingCul...

Postdigital Intimacies: Relational Lives in the Networked Public–Private, edited by Adrienne Evans, Jamie Hakim, Jessica Ringrose, Amy Shields Dobson and Shaka McGlotten New open access book from UCL Press. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

The online conference on experimental publishing practices is taking place over two afternoons on Wednesday 8 April (14:30–16:30 BST) and Thursday 9 April (14:00–17:30 BST). Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practicing... note that registration is for both days)

Announcing a presentation by Leonardo Impett, 'Workers are Leaving the Factory – world models and AI after cinema' on Wednesday 11th March, 16:00-18:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery. For further details and to book a place go to: lnkd.in/e4nXSK_q.

Publishing is ‘a construct of capitalism’ - Leone Ross observer.co.uk/culture/book... If novelists can recognise this, why do so many academics (and publishers) on the left still struggle to?

Spinoza’s Multitude, and Marxism’s: Free online seminar with Michael Hardt Monday March 16, 17:00-19:00 GMT Part of the From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality series hosted by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read & Jeremy Gilbert. For more information: culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to....

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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