"If we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a
radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? It’s this
question Gary Hall and his collaborators have been addressing for over
twenty years with experimental publishing projects such as Open
Humanities Press, Liquid and Living Books, and the Culture-Led
Re-Commoning of Cities. Unsettling received ideas of the author and the
book, originality and copyright, real and artificial intelligence, these
uncommon communities of theorist-mediums are testing the
‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of creating and sharing knowledge enabled
by various media technologies, from writing and print, through
photography and video, to computers and GenAI. By thinking outside the
masked black box that renders Euro-Western knowledge-making practices
invisible – keeping the human ontologically separate from the nonhuman,
be it animals, the planet or algorithmic machines – they show there’s no
such thing as the human, the nonhuman already being in(the)human."
Best wishes,
Sigi, David, Gary
[[OA-monographs] ] Masked Media by Gary Hall now available,
Sigi Jottkandt, 03/15/2025