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Energy Worlds in Experiment

2021, James Maguire, Laura Watts, Brit Ross Winthereik

Energy Worlds in Experiment is an experiment in writing about energy and an exploration of energy infrastructures as experiments....

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

2021, Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou

Feral Atlas published by Stanford University Press invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Frankenbook

2018, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenbook is a collective reading and collaborative annotation experience of the original 1818 text of Frankenstein; or, The Modern...

PubPub

Supports community-based collaborative drafting, review, and publication of scholarly work "using an integrated and iterative process".

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

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Gamer Theory

2007, McKenzie Wark

Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book I produced this website as a way to think about games. We released Version 1.1 back in...

CommentPress

CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph,...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University

2019, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Developed in an open way by a process of community review, still using the CommentPress plugin, but now on the Humanities Commons platform:...

CommentPress

CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph,...

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Reviewing

Evaluation of research by the scholarly community is essential to conducting and publishing research. In response to changing publication formats...

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Glas

1986, Jacques Derrida

Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading...

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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hybrid publishing systems

2023, Alexander Roidl and Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

hybrid publishing systems is a compilation of essays and research that readers can compile into a personal publication and print at home. There...

MediaWiki

Collaboration and publishing platform used to run Wikipedia. Easily adaptable to monograph publishing and can incorporate a range of rich digital...

paged.js

Paged.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content. This means...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print Saturation

2018, The Multigraph Collective

The Multigraph Collective is a team of twenty-two scholars at sixteen universities in Canada, the US, and the UK. Its members are Mark...

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

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Learning From YouTube

2011, Alexandra Juhasz

The MIT Press, in partnership with the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, in 2011 published Learning from YouTube, by Alexandra...

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Living Books About Life

This book series published by Open Humanities Press ‘repackaged’ previously published open access content into curated edited collections. The...

MediaWiki

Collaboration and publishing platform used to run Wikipedia. Easily adaptable to monograph publishing and can incorporate a range of rich digital...

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Remixing

Remix includes creating derivatives of 'original' works through reuse, adaptation, transformation, and modification. Remix practices in...

Rewriting

Rewriting involves the practice of re-envisioning an already existing text without (necessarily) intervening into the original source text. It...

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Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

2017, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux

Boluk and LeMieux shine a hundred spotlights on play’s diversity in, on, around, between, through, and without video games. Their wildly...

Manifold

Large-scale publishing platform for publishing text and accompanying digital resources. Able to incorporate a range of rich digital media. Strong...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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Mutant Assembly

2022, Assembly of Mutants

Mutant Assembly grew out of an assembly of artists, writers, dancers and researchers departing from Senegal’s post-independence,...

Preserving

Preservation aims to keep valuable objects safe from harm. Experiment, by contrast, implies potential failure and the possibility that value is...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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O Que é o SUS

2015, Jairnilson Silva Paim

A luta pelo direito à saúde e pela consolidação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) tem se expressado a partir da articulação de trabalhadores das...

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OBP Customise

Open Book Publishers (OBP) allows and enables the creation of customised editions of OBP content. From requesting a customised cover for one of...

Remixing

Remix includes creating derivatives of 'original' works through reuse, adaptation, transformation, and modification. Remix practices in...

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On Publishing: Graphic Designers Who Publish

2020, Christopher Hamamoto and Jon Sueda

A book on publishing and graphic design that encourages readers to generate unique print PDFs for download and home printing: the book can be...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”

2018, Jacqueline Wernmont, Heather Blackmore, David Kim, Ulia Popova, Beatrice Schuster, Amy Borsuk

Created as a pilot project for the Claremont Center for Digital Humanities, Performing Archive: Edward S. Curtis + ‘the vanishing...

Scalar

Enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with text in a variety of ways with minimal technical expertise required....

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Phone & Spear: A Yut̲a Anthropology

2019, Miyarrka Media

Building on a ten-year collaboration by the community-based arts collective Miyarrka Media, the project is an experiment in the anthropology of...

GitLab

Hosting for Git repositories which can be turned into static sites for monograph publications. Able to include live code snippets which can be run...

PubPub

Supports community-based collaborative drafting, review, and publication of scholarly work "using an integrated and iterative process".

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

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Photomediations: An Open Book

2015, Joanna Zylinska, Kamila Kuc, Jonathan Shaw, Ross Varney, Michael Wamposzyc

Photomediations: An Open Book was an experiment in open and hybrid publishing, as well as a celebration of the book as living object....

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Planned Obsolescence springs from the author Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication...

CommentPress

CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph,...

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Reviewing

Evaluation of research by the scholarly community is essential to conducting and publishing research. In response to changing publication formats...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Printed Web 1–5

2017, Paul Soulellis

Printed Web is an artists' publication devoted to web-to-print art and discourse, published by Paul Soulellis. Artists are invited to submit...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}

2015, Jessica Pressman, Mark C. Marino, and Jeremy Douglass

Reading Project had an online companion to the print book built in ACLS Workbench for cloning, forking, and building upon the original text.

ACLS Workbench

A fork of Scalar that promoted scholarly collaboration by allowing scholars to "create, join, or clone online arguments enhanced with multimedia content".

(No longer maintained)

Scalar

Enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with text in a variety of ways with minimal technical expertise required....

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make revisions...

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remixthebook

2011, Mark Amerika

The remixthebook.com website is the online hub for the digital remixes of many of the theories generated in the print book and features the...

Remixing

Remix includes creating derivatives of 'original' works through reuse, adaptation, transformation, and modification. Remix practices in...

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Rhythm Science

2004, Paul D. Miller

Miller’s textual provocations are designed for maximum visual and tactile seduction by the international studio COMA (Cornelia Blatter and...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Socrates in the labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy

1994, David Kolb

Socrates in the Labyrinth is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships between hypertext, thought, and argument. Does hypertext present...

Storyspace

Storyspace is a tool for complex, interlinked narrative, both fiction and nonfiction. Twenty years ago, the original Storyspace ushered in the era...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading

2014, Christopher P. Long

Recently, I have been working on two performative publications. The first, my enhanced digital book to be published by Cambridge University...

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

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