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Talk, ‘Liquidate AI Art’, Computer Arts Society, London, 15 October, 2025.

Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence

(2025) Ecologies of Dissemination issue of PARSE Journal #21 - Summer, edited by Eva Weinmayr and Femke Snelting. (I am one of the contributors to this experimental issue which emphasizes collective, community-based and relational practices of knowledge production over individual authorship.)

Robot Review of Books

Some recent and not-so-recent publications

A Brief History of Writing: From Human Meaning to Pattern Recognition and Beyond, with Joanna Zylinska

Experimental Publishing Compendium

Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers (book series)

‘How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’.

'Experimenting With Copyright Licences' (blogpost for the COPIM project - part of the documentation for the first book of the Combinatorial Books pilot)

Contribution to 'Archipiélago Crítico. ¡Formado está! ¡Naveguémoslo!' (invited talk: in Spanish translation with English subtitles)

How to Practise the Culture-led Re-Commoning of Cities (printable poster), Partisan Social Club, adjusted by Gary Hall

'Writing Against Elitism with A Stubborn Fury' (podcast)

'The Uberfication of the University - with Gary Hall' (podcast)

'"La modernidad fue un "blip" en el sistema": sobre teorías y disrupciones con Gary Hall' ['"Modernity was a "blip" in the system": on theories and disruptions with Gary Hall']' (press interview in Colombia)

'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota - Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 (blog post)

Open Access

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Mar172021

Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism? - book launch for A Stubborn Fury, 25 March via Zoom

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 12:33PM

Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism Like We Can Unlearn Racism and Sexism? Join us for this ‘In-conversation’, where Gary Hall and Carolina Rito address this question while discussing Hall's latest book, A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain.

Thurs 25 March 2021, 7.00pm (GMT), free online event, via Zoom

Go here to register:

https://www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/177/regist

Other questions that will be addressed during the event include:

·      How come so much writing in England is realist, humanist and anti-intellectual?
·      Is all great literature pirated?
·      Why are Oxbridge-educated journalists obsessed with protecting ‘ordinary’ people from difficult language?
·      What do we need most – another theory of revolution or a revolution of theory?
·      Is everyone writing their memoirs today or does it just seem like it?
·      And why is Gary so mean to Tom McCarthy?

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