Posts Tagged: digital enclosures

Saskia De Vries: Hybrid Publishing Model

By Silvio Lorusso, May 25, 2011

Saskia C.J. De Vries is managing director and senior editor of the Amsterdam University Press. In 2005, she started up Leiden University Press, a new [digital] imprint for dissemination of academic research materials at Leiden. Since 2008, AUP is coordinator of the EU funded project, Open Access Publishing in European Networks (www.oapen.org). She is a [...]

Henry Warwick: Digital Enclosures

By Silvio Lorusso, May 25, 2011

Henry Warwick is an artist, composer and scientist who received his BFA from Rutgers University in Visual Systems Studies, a major of his own invention. Henry received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. He is assistant professor in Communication Theory and Digital Media at Ryerson University, in Toronto, Ontario. Warwick discusses ‘atok’ or access [...]

Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm: Can the Literary Publishing Industry Learn to Adapt?

By Silvio Lorusso, May 25, 2011

Christiaan A. Alberdingk Thijm is a partner at the boutique law firm SOLV. Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the firm specializes in technology, media and communications law. Christiaan is considered a copyright law expert, especially where it concerns the application of copyright in a digital environment. He frequently advises about e-books and has had the [...]

Nicholas Spice: The Words Now Work for Us.

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Nicholas Spice has been Publisher of the London Review of Books since 1982. He has from time to time contributed articles to the LRB on fiction, music and psychoanalysis. Nicholas Spice Photographed by Sebastiaan ter Burg at the Unbound Book Conference. Spice prefaces his discussion during the ‘Digital Enclosures’ session by explaining that as a literary [...]

Gary Hall: New Notions of Individualism and Property in the Digital Age

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Gary Hall is a Professor of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University, UK. He is author of Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (2008) and Culture in Bits (2002), and co-editor of New Cultural Studies (2006) and Experimenting: Essays With Samuel Weber (2007). His work [...]