Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press' Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers series, which is edited by Janneke Adema, Simon Bowie, Gary Hall and Rebekka Kiesewetter:

Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University, edited by the Radical Open Access Collective

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/publishing-activism-within-without-a-toxic-university/

Co-published by Post Office Press (https://hcommons.org/members/pop/) and OHP, this experimental booklet brings together reflections from Radical Open Access (https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/) members on publishing activism and its relationship to the neoliberal university. Created as a side project to the Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism conference (https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/), it explores how publishing can respond to the ongoing crisis in higher education.

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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? ...'

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