Some recent-ish publications

Experimental Publishing Compendium

Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers (book series)

How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’.

'Experimenting With Copyright Licences' (blogpost for the COPIM project - part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books pilot)

Review of Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage' by Matthew Kirschenbaum

Contribution to 'Archipiélago Crítico. ¡Formado está! ¡Naveguémoslo!' (invited talk: in Spanish translation with English subtitles)

'Defund Culture' (journal article)

How to Practise the Culture-led Re-Commoning of Cities (printable poster), Partisan Social Club, adjusted by Gary Hall

'Pluriversal Socialism - The Very Idea' (journal article)

'Writing Against Elitism with A Stubborn Fury' (podcast)

'The Uberfication of the University - with Gary Hall' (podcast)

'"La modernidad fue un "blip" en el sistema": sobre teorías y disrupciones con Gary Hall' ['"Modernity was a "blip" in the system": on theories and disruptions with Gary Hall']' (press interview in Colombia)

'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota - Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 (blog post)

Open Access

Most of Gary's work is freely available to read and download either here in Media Gifts or in Coventry University's online repositories PURE here, or in Humanities Commons here

Radical Open Access

Radical Open Access Virtual Book Stand

'"Communists of Knowledge"? A case for the implementation of "radical open access" in the humanities and social sciences' (an MA dissertation about the ROAC by Ellie Masterman). 

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Monday
Jun102024

Oxford and the Observer Do Social Mobility

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An Oxford university student, Oscar Jelley, has won the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism – a competition for ‘fresh voices’, no less.

The prize has been awarded for a review of Isabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, a novel that critiques the awarding of literary prizes by exclusive institutions and argues powerfully against ‘bourgeois cultural gatekeeping’ and the ‘unwritten rules that govern the often suffocatingly bourgeois world of prestige culture’.

The review claims ‘literature should not be the preserve of a moneyed elite.’ It's a statement with which The Fall would no doubt agree, their lyric, ‘Life should be full of strangeness,’ being used to top and tail the prize-winning piece.

Speaking of the prize-winning elite railing against ‘the elites’ while displaying little sense of irony … what’s the betting the reviewer supports Manchester City, too!