‘August Reads ... and Listens’, the latest edition of the Open Humanities newsletter is now available: openhumanities.substack.com/p/august-rea... Includes a summer 2026 music playlist specially curated for Open Humanities by Mark Amerika.

August Reads ... and Listens

Open Humanities is the newsletter of Open Humanities Press (OHP), a radical, scholar-led, open access publisher of critical and cultural theory.

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The latest edition of Open Humanities, the newsletter of Open Humanities Press, is now available: openhumanities.substack.com/p/who-will-f... It explores what the shift from search to chat means for open access publishing, and considers three possible responses.

Who Will Find Us?: What Happens to Open Access After Search?

By Gary Hall

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A reminder that the annual proposal window of mediastudies.presss, the scholar-led and nonprofit OA publisher, will close on July 31, 2026. mediastudies.press welcomes submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form

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We're pleased to announce that Open Humanities Press is launching a Substack newsletter: Open Humanities. openhumanities.substack.com/p/welcome-to... Like Open Humanities Press itself, the newsletter is open and free, and will remain so. Subscribe here: openhumanities.substack.com/subscribe

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The 'Stimulating Media: Cognitive and Sensory Approaches' issue (10.1) of Media Theory has just been published: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt... Edited by Tony Sampson, Jernej Markelj and Diana Lengua.

Call for Papers Multisensory XR: From ‘Tech for Good’ to Ethical Immersive Experience International conference 6-7 January 2027 Centre for the Ecologies of Attention and Perception King’s College London, London, UK Submit: forms.office.com/pages/respon... Deadline: 1 Sept 2026

The Scholarly Letter invites submissions on Scholarship in the Age of the On-lightenmentt that grapple with what it means to pursue scholarship within platformed, curated, and fragmented conditions of illumination. Deadline: 2 August Honorarium: $150 Email: thescholarlyletter@scholar-square.com

Gemma Derrick et al's account of building The Journal of Research on Research is worth reading: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... Just sad that it has ended up an open access journal published with Taylor & Francis, when there's so much support for scholar-led alternatives from COPIM and others.

Why we built the Journal of Research on Research and what it cost us - LSE Impact

Gemma Derrick, Bart Penders, Serge Horbach & Tony Ross-Hellauer reflect on the choices, challenges & compromises of launching the Journal of Research on Research

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Lecture: Culture as Calculation: Technology, Language & the Machine Learning Turn in Times of Polycrisis by Mercedes Bunz + Joanna Zylinska & Alfie Bown 11 June, 5:30 BST Online OR in person: Strand Campus, Nash Lecture Theatre, King's College London Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Register – Culture as Calculation: Technology, Language, and the Machine Learning Turn in Times of Polycrisis – Nash Lecture Theatre (KIN 205)

Culture as Calculation: Technology, Language, and the Machine Learning Turn in Times of Polycrisis – Nash Lecture Theatre (KIN 205), Thu 11 Jun 2026 - Inaugural Lecture: Mercedes Bunz, Professor in Di...

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mediastudies.press have announced their annual proposal window from 1 June to 31 July, 2026. www.mediastudies.press They currently publish in five series: Media Manifold Public Domain Open Reader History of Media Studies Goffman in the Open

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Collapse: A Story King’s College London, Strand Campus, 3 June 5-7pm Free; booking required: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist... Consists of a screening of Joanna Zylinska’s new short film /collapse, followed by a panel discussion with Mercedes Bunz, Sebastián Lehuedé and Eleonora Lima.

Select tickets – Collapse: A Story – S-2.23 - Strand Building

Collapse: A Story – S-2.23 - Strand Building, Wed 3 Jun 2026 - Collapse – a state of events in which multiple systems fail at once, without the promise of repair – is one of the key terms used today t...

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Offprint - a publishers’ fair bringing together independent, experimental and socially engaged publishers working across art, architecture, design, the humanities and visual culture - starts today in London. Runs until Sunday. www.offprint.org/en/

Asch Degni & Roger Malina announce the free online publication of their book: DICKY: Mutamorphing Equibipedia of Emerging Words and Phrases artscilab.utdallas.edu/2026/04/28/d... DICKY explores how language emerges through human interaction, error and collaboration with artificial intelligence.

1/ We are pleased to publish a major new evaluation of our work over the past 4 years. Authored by @judithfathallah.bsky.social y.social and @joedeville.bsky.social, the report brings together research with a range of OBC stakeholders, with an analysis of OBC's finances obc.copim.pub/obc-stakehol...

OBC Stakeholder and Sustainability Evaluation Report

A report presenting an evaluation of the Open Book Collective's activities, finances and stakeholder engagement during its first years of operation

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The Open Book Futures project may finish today, but the fantastic #CopimCommunity continues! OBF members are booked up well into 2026 so keep an eye on our socials for more info 👀 Join our new mailing list 👉 buff.ly/gP2Q4cw And look out for the final project report, coming soon! #OABooks 1/2

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A podcast featuring Sigi Jöttkandt, Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall from Open Humanities Press, titled 'Friendship, and Other Ways of Producing Knowledge', is now available on the Scholē IRL website. www.scholeirl.org And on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuu...

Together with Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur, OHP invites you to mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with the 2nd edition of The Chernobyl Herbarium. Available for download OA at www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... With our best wishes, Sigi, Gary, Joanna, David

Open Humanities Press– The Chernobyl Herbarium

A scholar led open access publishing collective

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Announcement: publication of 'Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences', new special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, edited by Samuel Moore (Cambridge), Jenni Adams (Sheffield) and Miranda Barnes (Cambridge). journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/

The recording of Gary Hall’s discussion of Defund Culture for Breaking Culture Live is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbY... Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available OA on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats from medistudies.press: www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu...

Breaking Culture Live - Gary Hall: Defund Culture

YouTube video by Breaking Culture Live

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OHP's Gary Hall will be discussing his new book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal (www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu...) in the next episode of Breaking Culture Live tomorrow, broadcast on their YouTube channel at noon NYC time: www.youtube.com/@BreakingCul...

Breaking Culture Live

Breaking Culture Live is hosted by Sean Johnson Andrews. Each week we talk to a cultural studies scholar about the breaking news and their latest work in the field. We especially draw upon activists, ...

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Postdigital Intimacies: Relational Lives in the Networked Public–Private, edited by Adrienne Evans, Jamie Hakim, Jessica Ringrose, Amy Shields Dobson and Shaka McGlotten New open access book from UCL Press. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

The online conference on experimental publishing practices is taking place over two afternoons on Wednesday 8 April (14:30–16:30 BST) and Thursday 9 April (14:00–17:30 BST). Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practicing... note that registration is for both days)

Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots

Wednesday 8 April, 14:30 – 16:30 BST  & Thursday 9 April, 14:00 – 17:30 BST

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Announcing a presentation by Leonardo Impett, 'Workers are Leaving the Factory – world models and AI after cinema' on Wednesday 11th March, 16:00-18:00, at The Photographers’ Gallery. For further details and to book a place go to: lnkd.in/e4nXSK_q.

Publishing is ‘a construct of capitalism’ - Leone Ross observer.co.uk/culture/book... If novelists can recognise this, why do so many academics (and publishers) on the left still struggle to?

Leone Ross: ‘I was ignorant about racism in Britain’

The novelist on her Jamaican upbringing, arguing with her Black readership, and why it took 20 years to return to writing

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Spinoza’s Multitude, and Marxism’s: Free online seminar with Michael Hardt Monday March 16, 17:00-19:00 GMT Part of the From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality series hosted by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read & Jeremy Gilbert. For more information: culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to....

From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality

An online seminar series led by Jason Read, Andrew Goffey and Jeremy GilbertAt least since the 1960s, a particular strain of radical thought has explored the relationships – potential and act…

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The full text of Gary Hall's reponse to Response to Curt Rice's 'Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes’ on The Scholarly Kitchen is available here: garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2026...

Excellent post detailing the rationale that lay behind the creation of Open Book Collective and other similar collective funding initiatives. We have to stop thinking of open access in terms of 'free' content & instead start viewing it as infrastructure and labour that needs systematic funding.

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Guest Post — Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/g...

CfP: Special Issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/ ​​Any questions to JEP co-editors Janneke Adema and Alyssa Arbuckle via jep.editors@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways

Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2026 In recent years, Diamond Open Access (OA) has risen to the fore in the ongoing exploration of which knowledge production models are both ideal …

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If you haven’t already, check out the podcast from our fellow members of the Radical Open Access Collective, Minor Compositions: www.minorcompositions.info?page_id=1102 Episodes include: 42: We Are Making a Podcast About Mark Fisher 36: Feral Class 34: Communism After Deleuze

Gary Hall's book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is now out: www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu... Published by our friends at mediastudies.press, it's available open access, under the CC4r: Collective Conditions for Re-Use commitment, so please feel free to share widely.

Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal

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