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Welcome to the Culture Machine Liquid Books series wiki!

 

Culture Machine Liquid Books is a series of experimental digital ‘books’ published under the conditions of both open editing and free content. As such, you are free to compose, rewrite, edit, annotate, translate, tag, add to, remix, reformat, reinvent and reuse any of the books in the series, or produce parallel versions of them - and what's more you are expressly invited and encouraged to do so. (We would appreciate it if you would tell us about it if you do so away from this site.)

 

The wiki you are currently reading has been set up to expressely facilitate such experimention. It provides you with read/write access to all the volumes in the Liquid Books series. (All you need to do is click on 'Log in' above the Sidebar on the right and request access.)  A full list of the volumes in the series is provided for you on the Sidebar. You also have the ability to comment on, respond to, and debate with the text of these books, the authors, and other readers using the 'Add a comment' feature (see below). 

 

Where appropriate, some of the most interesting results of such open writing and editing - as chosen by Culture Machine's editors and peer-reviewers on a case by case basis - will be 'frozen' and published by Open Humanities Press as new versions of volumes in the Liquid Books series in their own right. These volumes, in common with all of Open Humanities Press' books, will be run through the University of Michigan's MPublishing suite of services and made freely available full text online, as HTML, and - again where appropriate - PDF as well. It is hoped that Print-on-Demand and e-pub book versions will be available in this way, too.

 

 


Volume 1. New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader

 

The first volume in the Culture Machine Liquid Books series is New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader. This has initially been put together by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall as a follow up to their 2006 woodware volume, New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). The first 'frozen liquid' version of this book - New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader (Version 1.0) - appeared as part of the Culture Machine journal's 'Pirate Philosophy' issue in 2008. 

 


Volume 2. The Post-Corporate University

 

The second volume in the Culture Machine Liquid Books series is The Post-Corporate University, which is being openly written and edited by Davin Heckman.    

 


Volume 3. Technology and Cultural Form: A Liquid Theory Reader

 

The third volume in the Culture Machine Liquid Books series is Technology and Cultural Form: A Liquid Theory Reader, which is being openly written and edited by Joanna Zylinska and the students on the MA Digital Media at Goldsmiths, University of London.

 


Volume 4. Wyrd to the Wiki: Lacunae Toward Wiki Ontologies

 

Fore! Ecstatic allocentric linking and transduction. Wyrd to the Wiki: Lacunae Toward Wiki Ontologies is an Unindentifiable Digital Object calling on your attentions and intentions. Woven wyrds  leak wiki wisdom wantonly. Resonant multi-player composition for N players. Openly and collaboratively written by Shareriff (Trey Conner, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg) and mobius (Richard Doyle, Penn State University), Wyrd to the wiki is an invocation and call to all.

 

 


Volume 5. 'We're All Game Changers Now': Open Education - A Study in Disruption

 


See also Liquid Books' companion series: Living Books About Life

 

Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and published by Open Humanities Press (OHP), Living Books About Life is a series of curated, open access books about life -- with life understood both philosophically and biologically -- which provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Produced by a globally-distributed network of writers and editors, the books in the series repackage existing open access science research by clustering it around selected topics whose unifying theme is life: e.g., air, agriculture, bioethics, cosmetic surgery, electronic waste, energy, neurology and pharmacology.

 

All the books in the series are themselves ‘living’, in the sense that they, too - like those in the Liquid Books series - are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers. As well as repackaging open access science research -- along with interactive maps, visualisations, podcasts and audio-visual material -- into a series of books, Living Books About Life (again, like the Liquid Books series) is thus engaged in rethinking ‘the book’ itself as a living, collaborative endeavour in the age of open science, open education, open data and e-book readers such as Kindle and the iPad.

 


Call for Contributions to the Culture Machine Liquid Books series

 

You are also free to write, create and publish liquid books of your own using this wiki. 

 

To encourage this, Culture Machine is currently seeking new and exciting contributions to the Liquid Books series to publish on the journal's main site alongside New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader. Suggestions for possible themes include, but are in no way restricted to:

 

Attention Economy

The Book

Code

Community

Copyright

Creative Commons

Data

Digital Humanities

Eco-criticism

The Environment

Food

The Global Economic Crisis Has Not Taken Place

Google

The Illegal Worker

Immigration

Ink

Locative Media

Management

Piracy

Religion

Student Protests

Social Scholarship

Software

War

Water

 

 

Anyone interested in contributing a volume to Culture Machine Liquid Books should contact the series editors Gary Hall and Clare Birchall - or just publish them using this Culture Machine Liquid Books wiki.

 

Gary Hall

Email: gary@garyhall.info

C.S.Birchall@kent.ac.uk

 

 

If you add a new volume in the series, please add it to this list on the main page so people can easily find it.

 

You can easily add a new page to the Liquid Books series wiki by creating a wiki link with the title of the page  
 you want to create on the front page. Then, when you click on that link, you will be taken to a new page that you can add to.

 

 

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