[ecrea] New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader

> A CALL FOR OPEN COLLABORATION FROM THE CULTURE MACHINE JOURNAL
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> <http://www.culturemachine.net/>http://www.culturemachine.net
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> 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. 
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> To find out more, please go to:
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> <http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/New+Cultural+Studies:+The+Liquid+Theory+Reader>http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/New+Cultural+Studies:+The+Liquid+Theory+Reader
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> 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:
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> <http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/How-to-Contribute-to-a-Liquid-Book>http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/How-to-Contribute-to-a-Liquid-Book
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> Clare Birchall and Gary Hall

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