Unpublishing: A Problem of Access

By Miriam Rasch, April 2, 2019

By Nadine Rotem-Stibbe Unpublish – ‘make content that has previously been published online unavailable to the public’. A stark reminder that this is easier said than done comes from the Oxford Dictionary: ‘Once the images have been published on the internet it will be practically impossible for any court order to unpublish them.’ And: ‘After [...]

Library Stack: connecting (hybrid) publications and libraries

By Miriam Rasch, March 19, 2019

Check out Library Stack, a project that works towards connecting artistic publications and library databases, and interested in getting in touch with relevant partners. Here’s a short intro: Library Stack is an online database, archive and distribution system for digital publications from the visual arts, design, architecture and theory. We collect ebooks, video, audio and [...]

What’s going on? Het essay in de wereld – About the essay, now also in English

By Miriam Rasch, March 15, 2019

Written for and presented at the launch of The world in yourself: Dutch and Flemish literature of the 21st century in sixty essays, 7 February 2019, Spui25 Amsterdam. After receiving a tip about translation website DeepL, I decided to experiment with it. I must say I’m impressed with the results (except for the word ‘tangconstructies’ [...]

Strategies to speed up publishing: some Best Practices

By Miriam Rasch, January 24, 2019

Write-up of a presentation held November 30th 2018 in Amsterdam. Below are some preliminary results from the Best Practices research that is continually being carried out within the Making Public project. These BPs and tools are collected throughout, so feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments or share them in another way. Let’s [...]

Non-linear publication tools

By Marc de Bruijn, December 13, 2018

There’s a long tradition of non-linear narratives in traditional fiction, dating back to the Mahabharata from the 5thcentury BC 1 all the way to Joyce’s Ulysses, published in 1922. The narrative device of non-linearity is not exactly what we’re after though, as we’re looking into non-linear publishing methods that are also somehow interactive and go [...]

Dragging the Ritual Manifesto into the modern age

By Marc de Bruijn, December 13, 2018

Ritual Manifesto is a digital publication by author Agnes Schreiner and published by Uitgeverij 1001 (Thousand & One Publishers) in 2003. This so-called web edition was built by Machined Arts using Adobe Flash and distributed via the web1 and on CD-ROM. In the summer of 2017, Adobe Systems announced that it would end support for [...]

Platform 2 Platform

By Inte Gloerich, November 30, 2018

Written by Inte Gloerich, Silvio Lorusso and Niels Schrader. During our meetings we defined the primary goal of the project: to mutually broaden the involved platforms’ audiences and thus strengthen the their positioning. By creating connections between each publisher’s website, their respective audience are ideally shared.. More specifically, the method we use to achieve this [...]

Beyond Peer-Review and Self-Help: The Dangerous Potentials of Collaborative Editing and Peer-Commenting

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 22, 2018

Work faster. Gain acknowledgement. Help peers. Go P2P. Edit collaboratively. Publish democratically. Read critically. These are just some of the promises made by the recent wave software built to facilitate (digital) publication. In the previous post, I evaluated the promises of tools for marketing, post-publication management, and reading. In this post, I will have a [...]

Torrent-like Publishing

By afincato, November 19, 2018

As part of the initial material contribution to the platform topic of the Making Public! RAAK project, and specifically thinking about networked publishing, I immediately focused on the recent new wave of peer 2 peer, decentralized technologies that took shape in the last few years, and about the possibility of publishing in a torrent-like fashion. [...]

Algorithmic Arrogance: Data-Analysis Tools for Digital Publishing and Their Politics

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 12, 2018

Enlarge impact. Enhance sales. Spot talent. Get cited. Build communities. Read freely. Analyze complexities. These are just some of the promises made by the recent wave of software built to facilitate (digital) publication. New media have always carried the promise of liberation and emancipation of (networks of) individual users from societal norms in ‘real life’, [...]