Performative Publications
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 40620594
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Open Humanities Press, The Journal of Electronic Publishing, The disrupted Journal of Media Practice Post Office Press
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output is a series of publishing experiments exploring alternative futures for scholarly communication. These are presented in the contextual document. The experiments reperform the humanist and print-based forms it is built on, including the scholarly book; the academic journal, article, and conference; metrics and audit cultures; individual authorship and copyright. Based on a methodology of versioning and processual and performative publishing, and by publishing research in e.g., wikis, pamphlets, video-articles, annotations, and posters, I address in form, practice, and content our so-perceived “natural” communication practices. Questioning this allows me to explore open online publishing forms that don’t simply reproduce uncritically the printed codex format and our established practices of knowledge production, dissemination, and consumption.
My practice highlights speculative forms of posthumanities publishing that are: processual, collaborative, and performative; openly editable for reuse and remix (liquid); and experimental and multi-modal. This, I argue, provides space for thinking further about the distributed, heterogeneous, humans, nonhumans, objects and non-anthropomorphic elements collectively involved in our research and publishing processes.
In publishing my research in this way, I want to disturb the existing closed access and market-driven scholarly publishing model and raise important questions for our common conceptions of scholarship that are still focused on publishing the final outcomes of research, on proprietorial authorship, and on fixed text objects. Such notions sustain established (commercial) stakeholders’ interests, which inhibit 1) wider access to research, 2) the exploration of new forms of scholarship, and 3) experiments with not-for-profit, scholar-led, and collaborative publishing.
This research has been widely discussed and reviewed at invited talks and keynotes, in newspapers and articles, and via direct user interactions. Insights from the work are currently being explored in the £3.6M Community-led Open Publications Infrastructures for Monographs project, which will inform OA policy implementation for both UKRI and the REF after 2021.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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