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[ecrea] New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader
Mon Mar 02 19:22:39 GMT 2009
A CALL FOR OPEN COLLABORATION FROM THE CULTURE MACHINE JOURNAL
<http://www.culturemachine.net/>http://www.culturemachine.net
Culture Machine is seeking open collaboration on
the writing and editing of the first volume of
its online Liquid Books series, New Cultural
Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader:
<http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/New+Cultural+Studies:+The+Liquid+Theory+Reader>http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/New+Cultural+Studies:+The+Liquid+Theory+Reader.
The first provisional version of this volume -
New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader
(Version 1.0) - has been put together by Gary
Hall and Clare Birchall as a follow-up to their
2006 ?woodware? edited collection, New Cultural
Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh
University Press and Georgia University Press).
From here on in, however, the idea is for this
new online ?liquid book? ? to which everyone is
invited to contribute ? to be written and
developed in an open, co-operative,
decentralised, multi-user-generated fashion:
not just by its initial ?authors?, ?editors? or
?creators?, but by a multiplicity of
collaborators distributed around the world.
In this way, the New Cultural Studies Reader
will be freely available for anyone, anywhere,
to read, reproduce and distribute. Once they
have requested access, users will also be able
to rewrite, add to, edit, annotate, tag, remix,
reformat, reinvent and reuse this reader, or
produce alternative parallel versions of it,
however they wish. In fact, they are expressly
invited and encouraged to do so, as the project relies on this intervention.
It is hoped that the New Cultural Studies:
Liquid Theory Reader project will raise a number
of important questions for ideas of academic
authorship, attribution, publication, citation,
accreditation, fair use, quality control, peer
review, copyright, intellectual property,
content creation and cultural studies. For
instance, with its open editing and free content
the project decenters the author and editor
functions, making everyone potential
authors/editors. It also addresses an issue
raised recently by Geert Lovink: why are wikis
not utilised more to create, develop and change
theory and theoretical concepts, instead of
theory continuing to be considered as the
?terrain of the sole author who contemplates the
world, preferably offline, surrounded by a pile
of books, a fountain pen, and a notebook?? At
the same time, in ?What Is an Author??, Foucault
warns that any attempt to avoid using the
concept of the author to close and fix the
meaning of the text risks leading to a limit and
a unity being imposed on the text in a different
way: by means of the concept of the ?work?. So
to what extent does users? ability to rewrite,
remix, reversion and reinvent this liquid ?book?
render untenable any attempt to impose a limit
and a unity on it as a ?work?? And what are the
political, ethical and social consequences of
such ?liquidity? for ideas that depend on the
concept of the ?work? for their effectivity:
those concerning attribution, citation,
copyright, intellectual property, academic
success, promotion, tenure, and so on?
To find out more, please go to:
<http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/New+Cultural+Studies:+The+Liquid+Theory+Reader>http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/New+Cultural+Studies:+The+Liquid+Theory+Reader
For a quick and easy-to-read guide on how to
collaborate on the writing and editing of New
Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader, please visit:
<http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/How-to-Contribute-to-a-Liquid-Book>http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/How-to-Contribute-to-a-Liquid-Book
Clare Birchall and Gary Hall
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