'Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control"' (with Clare Birchall and Pete Woodbridge) - this is the second episode of Liquid Theory TV, a series of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) programmes experimenting with new and different ways of acting as a ‘public intellectual’ in the current media environment. 'Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control"' first appeared in Culture Machine 11, 2010. It is accompanied there by an introductory essay. (The first episode of Liquid Theory TV is available toward the bottom of this page).
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‘Pirate Philosophy’ – this lecture introduces a project investigating some of the implications of so-called internet piracy for the humanities, particularly the latter’s ideas of authorship, the book, the academic journal, scholarly writing and publishing, intellectual property, copyright law, fair use, content creation and cultural production. 'Pirate Philosophy' explores such ideas both philosophically and legally through the creation of an actual ‘pirate’ text using peer-to-peer BitTorrent networks. Given at Coventry University, UK, 29 September, 2008. ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 1.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Free Content, Free/Libre/Open Media’ was published in Culture Machine 10, 2009.
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'"Follow the Money": The Political Economy of Open Access Publishing in the Humanities' - a plenary lecture on open access in the humanities presented at the 1st Open Access Conference on scholarly publishing in Lund, Sweden, September 2009.
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Liquid Theory TV (with Clare Birchall and Pete Woodbridge) – this is the introduction to a series of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) programmes experimenting with new ways of acting as a ‘public intellectual’ in the current media environment by communicating academic research and ideas to a wider community both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the university. First published in Culture Machine 10, 2009.
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'The Impact of the Humanities: or, What's Next for Open Access', Berlin 5 Open Access conference, Padua, Italy, 19-21 September 2007, organised by the Max Planck Institute.