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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

Most of Gary's work is freely available to read and download either here in Media Gifts or in Coventry University's online repositories PURE here, or in Humanities Commons here

Radical Open Access

Radical Open Access Virtual Book Stand

'"Communists of Knowledge"? A case for the implementation of "radical open access" in the humanities and social sciences' (an MA dissertation about the ROAC by Ellie Masterman). 

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Friday
May022025

Me and Bobby D

DateFriday, May 2, 2025 at 10:40AM

Yeah, right!

Apparently, Pirate Philosophy was an influence on Bob Dylan. Specifically, his track ‘Key West (Philosopher Pirate)’ from Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020), where the Nobel Laureate gives himself yet another moniker to set alongside all the rest: that of Pirate Philosopher.

As Steven Thwaits puts it: ‘Dylan’s borrowings from academics are … comedic skits of both admiration and mockery. He takes their work, which is often based in his work, creates something new, and sends it back.’

Never written on Dylan, so not sure how much it applies in this (very, very hard to believe) case. Still, can’t wait to see what he does with Masked Media.

See Steven Thwaits, ‘Bob Dylan’s Pirate Philosophy’, Substack, June 22, 2024, sjthwaits.substack.com/p/bob-d

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