Yesterday I posted on the Radical Open Access list, responding to last week's Radical OA III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism conference. Titled 'What Do We Not Think About When We Think About Money?', a version of this post is now available on my Media Gifts blog:

http://www.garyhall.info/journal/2025/4/14/what-do-we-not-think-about-when-we-think-about-money.html

'... when it comes to open access publishing projects, financial sustainability matters - of course. But to what extent has the toxic, 'neoliberal', 'managerialist' university shaped even us to focus on the money, funding and funding models, the business side of things, paid/free/volunteer/service/recognised & rewarded labour? Even how radical OA can capitalise on the current financial crisis of the university (at least in the UK and US)? ...

'... money is extremely important, yes, I appreciate that. But what gets lost when it becomes one of the main lenses through which we view radical open access? ...'

As a member of the Radical Open Access Collective (@RadicalOA), Cadernos de Linguística embraces collective, care-driven publishing that resists extractive models and fosters intellectual autonomy.
Open access is not just free access — it's about rethinking how knowledge is created, shared, and sustained.
#OpenAccess #RadicalOA

Lyall, A., Ortiz, M. & Billo, E., (2025) “Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6276. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.6276

Tickets are now live for 'Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism'

It takes place on the afternoons of April 10/11. In-person attendance in Cambridge and online. Speakers and registration details in the following link:

https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/

#oa #OpenAccess
#AcademicPublishing #openaccess_publishing
#scholarlyPublishing
#radicaloa #SocialJustice #humanities #socialscience #activism

https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/antagonize-this-the-empty-signification-of-academy-owned-publishing-in-the-neoliberal-university/release/2

Powerful post on the blog of punctum books by Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei engaging with:

1) Sarah Kember and Amy Brand, "The Corporate Capture of Open-Access Publishing," Chronicle of Higher Education, August 16, 2023, https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-corporate-capture-of-open-access-publishing.

as well as two pieces in Culture Machine 23 (2024):

2) Sarah Kember, “Householding: A Feminist Ecological Economics of Publishing,” https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/kember-householding/

3) Jefferson Pooley, “Before Progress: On the Power of Utopian Thinking for Open Access Publishing,” https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CM23_Pooley_Before_Progress.pdf.

For a briefer initial engagement with Pooley’s piece, see Gary Hall, 'The Pluriversal Politics of Radical Publishing's Scaling Small': http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/10/18/the-pluriversal-politics-of-radical-publishings-scaling-smal.html

@jpooley

1/6 'Before Progress: On the Power of Utopian Thinking for Open Access Publishing’ by Jefferson Pooley: latest excellent read from the new Publishing After Progress special issue of Culture Machine, edited by Rebekka Kiesewetter:

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

Excited about introducing the final session of our #ExperimentalBooks online conference, Experimental Books – Re-imagining Scholarly Publishing, later this afternoon. It's a keynote panel featuring Prof. Paige Raibmon and Dr. Winnie Soon, with Dr. Lozana Rossenova (@lozross) as respondent.

Prof. Raibmon is going to be speaking about ‘Digital Space as Indigenous Territory, Scholarly Writing as Relational Practice: Reflections from the Collaborative Production of an Open Access Book'.

@siusoon is going to be talking about 'Writing a Book As If Writing a Piece of Software'.

You can register here: https://experimentalbooks.pubpub.org/registrationinfos

#OAbooks #OpenAccess #radicalOA #publishing #media #writing #collaboration #technology #software

https://experimentalbooks.pubpub.org/p

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation, edited by James Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter.

Like all Open Humanities Press books, Articulating Media is available open access:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/articulating-media/

Book description:

To ‘articulate’ media means to understand them by locating their connections in space and time. Articulating Media offers new approaches to the writing of technology and the technologies of writing by twinning an investigation of language with an attention to location. Where does media theory take place? How should media theory understand its own occupation of the spaces of media? What materialities might survive media’s many articulations and associations?

Liking the small format of these books in the Las Lecturas de Sileno series from Universidad Iberoamericana. They could almost fit into a wallet, let alone a back pocket.

The content is great too.

#OAbooks #radicalOA #piracy #theory #books #openbooks #publishing

This one on pirate philosophy is available open access here:

https://filosofiadelapracticaeditorial.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SILENO-Filosofia-pirata-y-trabajo-editorial.pdf

We are excited to announce our final end-of-project conference

“Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books”,

which will be taking place online on April 20 & 21, 2023.

#OAbooks #openinfra #radicalOA #opensource #floss #preservation #metadata #dissemination

The Scaling Small philosophy is an intentional alternative to large-scale, commercial approaches to academic publishing. In addition to creating the community-led governance structures, archiving and preservation best practices, experimental book pilots and resources to support this, Scaling Small comes to the fore very clearly in 3 of COPIM’s main outputs: the Open Book Collective (OBC); ‘Opening the Future’ (OtF); and Thoth. As COPIM concludes, we hope to discuss and extend the organisational principle of Scaling Small in several ways, and with a variety of collaborators, while also thinking ahead about next steps.

Save the date & register here! More details coming soon!

https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org

As I moved over to the hcommons.social server a bit of an #introduction. I am a cultural and media theorist working across the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture. My research explores the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production, incorporating processual and performative publishing, #radicalOA, scholarly poethics, media studies, book history, cultural studies, and critical theory. I am an Associate Professor at The Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University where I currently oversee the post-publishing research theme and co-lead on the COPIM project (Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs). I also support various publishing projects & collectives, including the Radical Open Access Collective, Open Humanities Press, the Open Book Collective, and Post Office Press. I also published an openly available monograph, Living Books. Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press 2021) https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262046022/living-books/

Having moved over to #HumanitiesCommons yesterday, I believe it's time for a proper #introduction

Hi, I'm Toby, and am currently working as product manager of @Thoth_metadata - prior to that, I have been project manager on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project.

With a background in Cultural and Media Studies (MA in Television Studies), I am interested in exploring #OpenScholarship practices in their many facets - currently with a focus on scholar- and community-led #OAbooks #radicalOA #OpenInfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences

For the last thirteen years, I've worked in projects that sought to foster uptake of #OER and #OpenEducation practices, #FLOSS tools for teaching and learning, & #OpenScience in more general terms and in a variety of configurations.

Btw. 2012-2018, I did a part-time PhD project on TV & Cultural Memory but eventually decided to step away bc. of personal/health reasons ... #mediastudies #commodon