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Etherpad

Web based collaborative real-time editor.

Vivliostyle

An open source project for a new typesetting system fitting for digital and web publishing based on the latest web standard technology.

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...

Juncture

Juncture is a suite of tools and services that enable anyone to easily create engaging web pages with rich visualizations, including interactive...

octomode

Octomode is a collective editing space for PDF making, using Etherpad, Paged.js and Flask.

Ether2HTML

Skeleton to design a webpage (for screen or print) collectively and synchronously using Etherpad, a collaborative text editor. It uses the...
(Minimally maintained)

etherpash

A custom Libre Graphics workflow. The etherpash workflow utilizes a custom ad hoc markup based on the desire to edit content in a simple manner,...
(No longer maintained)

Etherbox

Etherbox is a constellation of collective tools and practices that developed in and around Constant. The current release of Etherbox consists of...
(No longer maintained)

Pad2Print

Pad2Print is a collaborative printed document layout tool in the web browser. It uses pads on which it is possible to edit the CSS and allows a...
(No longer maintained)

Ghost

Ghost is an application for publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website,...

Processing

Processing is a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within...
Books
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Writing Machines

2002, N. Katherine Hayles
Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has...
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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...
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The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

2008, Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, and Jerome Angel
Fiore described The Medium is the Massage as having ‘no “original” manuscript. The idea was to select some of McLuhan’s ideas from previous...

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

2021, Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou
Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects....

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...

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....

As I Remember It: Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

2019, Elsie Paul with Davis McKenzie, Paige Raibmon, and Harmony Johnson
This media-rich, multi-path book offers a rare glimpse into the life of a Coast Salish woman and the history and lifeways of her people. It...

Conversations

2015, Femke Snelting, Christoph Haag
Conversations is an extensive collection of dialogues between developers and designers involved in the wider ecosystem of Libre...

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,...

Boxes: A Field Guide

2020, Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, Maria Rentezi
Gathered in the format of a field guide, Boxes offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely...

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....
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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...