Radical Open Access and the Politics of Publishing.

A Genealogy of Affinities and Correlations

Janneke AdemaCoventry University

Radical Open Access ConferencePanel 4. ‘Open’: Alternative Genealogies

Open Access

SecrecyAccess

DisseminationExperimentation

Politics and Ethics

Secrecy

Pamela Long, Openness, Secrecy,

Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture

of Knowledge from Antiquity to the

Renaissance (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins

University Press, 2001).

Access

Janneke Adema and Gary Hall, ‘The Political Nature of the Book: On Artists’ Books and Radical Open Access’,

New Formations 78 (1) (2013) 138–156.

http://ow.ly/OdpoC

 

Printed Matter (1976)

Dissemination

Ted Striphas and Mark Hayward. “Working Papers in Cultural Studies, or, the Virtues of Grey Literature.” New formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics. Vol. 78 (2013), pp. 102-116.

CCCS Occasional and Working Papers

Stuart Hall

“We did not think of these as necessarily finished products. We wanted to publicize the work we were doing to any other intellectual communities that might have been interested (without knowing who they were necessarily) and to a wider public.  And we wanted to know who was interested, and to converse with them.”

Radical Pamphlets

Guerilla OpenAccess

“Meanwhile,  those  who  have  been  locked  out  are  not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing  over  fences,  liberating  the  information  locked  up by  the publishers and  sharing  them with your  friends. But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's  called  stealing  or  piracy,  as  if  sharing  a  wealth  of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering  its  crew. But  sharing  isn't  immoral —  it's  a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.” 

Piracy

Experimentation

David Stairs – Boundless (1983)

Politics & Ethics