Welcome to the Culture Machine Liquid Books series

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 completely free to edit, annotate, tag, add to, remix, reformat, reversion, reuse, reinvent and republish these books in any way you wish - and are strongly encouraged to do so.

The wiki you are currently reading has been set up expressely to facilitate experimention of this kind. It provides you with complete read and write access to all the volumes in the Liquid Books series (a list of which is provided on the accompanying 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). 

The most interesting results of such experimentation with the liquid book format - as judged by Culture Machine's editors and peer-reviewers - will be 'frozen' and published on the Culture Machine site as a new version in its own right. 

New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader

The first volume in the Liquid Books series is New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader. This has been edited 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.

Call for Contributions to the Culture Machine Liquid Books series

But you are not restricted to merely contributing to volumes in the series that have initially been produced by someone else. You can also produce and publish volumes of your own.

Culture Machine is currently seeking new and exciting contributions to the Liquid Books series. Suggestions for possible themes include (but are in no way restricted to):

The Book

Eco-criticism

The Environment

Food

Google

The Illegal Worker

Immigration

Management

Piracy

Religion

The University

War

Water

Anyone interested in contributing a volume to Culture Machine Liquid Books should contact the series editor Gary Hall - or just publish them using the Culture Machine Liquid Books wiki. We'll do the rest.

Gary Hall

Email: gary@garyhall.info: