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Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities

  I am very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing: ‘Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities’, edited by Gary Hall and myself. This special issue consists of a selection of video-articles by contributors including Mark Amerika, Monika Bakke, Endre Dányi, Johanna Drucker, Lesley Gourlay, Sarah Kember, Silvio Lorusso, Erin…

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* Special Issue: The disrupted Journal of Media Practice * 6 Conversations around Media Practice – Join in Now!

From July 1st until September 15th 2016 The disrupted Journal of Media Practice will host 6 conversations around media practice, based upon and centred around various papers-in-progress by international media artists, practitioners and theorists, and that will together make up this special issue of the Journal of Media Practice. This special issue—guest edited by the Centre for…

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CDM researchers at the AHRC Common Ground event in York on June 21st

Gary Hall and Janneke Adema will be joining Open Book Publishers’ Rupert Gatti (Cambridge University) to promote and represent the Radical Open Access Collective at the AHRC Common Ground event in York on Tuesday the 21st of June. Here they will have a stand with books, promotional materials, and open access digital editions from a…

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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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Call for Creative Works and Papers – The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice

Although media practice as a field and community embraces a plurality of media, the materiality of its scholarly forms of production and communication remain predominantly text-based. How then, can a journal of media practice (JMP) extend from a speculative focus on what media practice as research could be, to an exploration of the alternative forms of…

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