Tag: Gary Hall

New Book By Gary Hall: Pirate Philosophy

This is the Preface from Gary Hall’s new book: Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities  (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2016). https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy — “We find ourselves in a time of riots wherein a rebirth of History, as opposed to the pure and simple repetition of the worst, is signalled and takes shape” – Alain Badiou Since the…

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Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?

  Janneke Adema – Chair (Coventry University, UK) Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France) Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US) Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK) David Parry (Saint Joseph University, US) Registration: http://why-are-we-not-boycotting-academia-edu.eventbrite.co.uk Coventry University Tuesday 8th December 2015 3:00-6:00pm Ellen Terry Building room ET130 Organised by The Centre for Disruptive Media: www.disruptivemedia.org.uk   With over 36 million visitors each…

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Radical Open Access Conference

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Coventry University 15th – 16th of June 2015 Two days of critical discussion and debate in support of an ‘alternative’ vision for open access and scholarly communication. The aim of the conference is to explore some of the intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. A particular emphasis…

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Knowledge Machines: Conference Report and Video Recordings now available

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On the 27th of September of this year, the Centre for Disruptive Media teamed up with Kent’s TEEME programme to host Knowledge Machines: The Potential of the Digital. A Symposium on Alternative Practices for Humanities Research, at the University of Kent. A conference report is now available which you can find underneath. The video recordings…

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Gary Hall on “Piracy and Open Access”

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– Reblogged from the Hybrid Publishing Notepad – Gary Hall is a critical theorist working on politics, philosophy, and new media technologies. He is a professor of Media and Performing Arts at the School of Art and Design, Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media at Coventry University, UK, and visiting professor at the Hybrid…

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