Gary Hall

Reading N. Katherine Hayles’s Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational from 2021.

Is it postprint? Sure. Is it postbook? Mmmm... not so much perhaps.

For some postprint examples that are using computational media to also push toward becoming postbook, see:

Liquid books: http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/

Living Books About Life: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/

Photomediations: An Open Book: http://photomediationsopenbook.net/

Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/

More: https://linktr.ee/maskedmedia1

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May 23 at 9:07amWeb
Show threadGary Hall4d ago

Also, is Hayles’ publishing of Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational all rights reserved behind a paywall with Columbia University Press ( https://cup.columbia.edu/book/postprint/9780231198257/) an example of the complacency and negligence Harney and Moten, and Batterbury, see critical intellectuals as displaying - when it comes to open access especially?

What does it mean to theorise the future of books in terms of postprint and computationality, while locking knowledge behind a legacy paywall?

For more, including alternative ways of publishing, see: Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf

And Simon Batterbury, ‘The Chequered History of Scholar-led OA: Doing It And Supporting It’, in Publishing Activism Within/Without a Toxic University: https://works.hcommons.org/records/jg2as-46424#description-heading

Postprint | Columbia University Press

Since Gutenberg’s time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transformi... | CUP

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Show threadGary Hall3d ago

Still, Postprint is not the most jarring example of critical intellectuals showing apparent complacency toward legacy media I’ve come across in the last few days. That distinction goes to The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna.

It’s certainly an important issue. But as well as providing some intriguing answers to question of how to resist big media The AI Con raises some equally pressing questions of its own.

Can we really ‘fight big tech’ and its hype by promoting and selling a book through Amazon (£17.36 hardback, £11.99 Kindle) and AppleBooks ($14.99)?

And how does publishing with Vintage – an imprint of Penguin Random House, the world's largest for-profit English-language trade publisher – align with the idea of creating the future we want?

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