Books
(2009) New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader – co-edited with Clare Birchall and others (published by Open Humanities Press in the Culture Machine Liquid Books series) (digital book)
(2008) Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press)
(2007) Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (New York: Fordham University Press) - co-edited with Simon Morgan Wortham. (Collection on the work of the influential US-based theorist of literature and technology)
(2006) New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) - co-edited with Clare Birchall. A US edition of this book was published by the University of Georgia Press in March 2007; a South Asian edition by Orient Longman in October 2007. A Turkish translation is due to appear from Ayrac, with Nanjing University Press bringing out a Chinese translation.
(2002) Culture In Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory (London and New York: Continuum)
Books in progress
Chp.1: Media Gifts: The Missing Community; Chp.2: Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0); Chp.3: The Open Scholarship Full Disclosure Initiative; Chp.4: Ten Questions for Cultural Studies Today; Chp.5: Liquid Books;
Chp.6: On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East; Chp.7: WikiNation: How To Start a Country; Chp.8: We Can Know It For You: The Secret Life of Metadata; Chp.9: The Free, Libre, Open University; Chp.10: Para-site.
Catalogues
(2010) 'We Can Know It For You: The Secret Life of Metadata', in How We Became Metadata, catalogue for exhibition at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, London, May to July, 2010. (Exhibition blogged at Boundaryobject.org.)
(2009) ‘Experiments of the Stelarc-Machine’ (with Joanna Zylinska) in Stelarc Mechaniques du Corps/Body Mechanics, retrospective catalogue for exhibition at Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France, April - consists of 13,000 word essay and interview with Stelarc published simultaneously in French and English.
Articles
(2011, invited for publication and forthcoming, Spring) ‘Cultural Studies and Theory: Once More From the Top With Feeling’ (with Clare Birchall), in The Renewal of Cultural Studies, edited by Paul Smith (Philadelphia: Temple University Press).
(2010, invited for publication and submitted), ‘Fluid Notes on Liquid Books’, in Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play: The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, book to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC), Virginia Tech.
(2010) 'Deleuze’s "Postscript on the Societies of Control"’ (with Clare Birchall and Pete Woodbridge), Culture Machine, 11.
(2010) 'Introduction to Liquid Theory TV, Episode 2: Deleuze’s "Postscript on the Societies of Control"’(with Clare Birchall and Pete Woodbridge), Culture Machine, 11.
(2009) ‘The Open Scholarship Full Disclosure Initiative: A Subversive Proposal’, Against the Grain (June).
(2009) 'Introduction to Version 1.0 of New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader' (with Clare Birchall), in Gary Hall, Clare Birchall and others (eds) New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader (Open Humanities Press).
(2009) ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 1.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Free Content, Free/Libre/Open Media’, Culture Machine, Vol. 10.
(2008) ‘WikiNation: On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East’, Cultural Politics, Vol. 5, No 1 (pp. 5-26).
(2007) 'IT, Again: Or, How to Build an Ethical Virtual Institution', in Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall (eds) Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (New York: Fordham University Press). A German translation of this article was published in the special issue of the journal Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, Medien – Kőrper – Imagination, edited by Mark Poster and Christoph Wulf, 17.1 (2008).
(2007) 'Experimenting with Samuel Weber' (with Simon Morgan Wortham), in Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall (eds) Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (New York: Fordham University Press).
(2007) 'The Politics of Secrecy: Cultural Studies and Derrida in the Age of Empire', Cultural Studies, Vol. 21 No 1 (January).
(2006) 'Coca-colonised Thinking?', The Oxford Literary Review, 28.
(2006) 'Cultural Studies and Deconstruction', in Gary Hall and Clare Birchall (eds), New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
(2006) 'New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Some Comments, Clarifications, Explanations, Observations, Recommendations, Remarks, Statements and Suggestions)' (with Clare Birchall), in New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory, edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh).
(2004) 'Slashdoc', Culture Machine 6.
(2004) 'Why You Can't Do Cultural Studies and Be a Derridean: Cultural Studies After Birmingham, the New Social Movements and the New Left', Culture Machine 6.
(2004) 'Digitise This', The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Vol.26, No.1, January-March.
(2003) 'Digitise This', Mediactive, Vol.1, No.1.
(2003) 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project (Original Pirate Copy)', Culture Machine 5.
(2002) 'Para-site', in The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, edited by Joanna Zylinska (Continuum: London and New York).
(1998) 'Beyond Marxism and Psychoanalysis' in Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires, edited by Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord (Taylor and Francis: London and New York).
(2000) 'Prospectus', Culture Machine 2.
(1999) 'www.culturalstudies.ac.uk', The Oxford Literary Review, 21.
(1999) 'This is a Test', Culture Machine 1.
(1996) 'Answering the Question: "What is an Intellectual?"', Surfaces, Vol. VI
(1996) '"It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate": Why Cultural Studies Is So "Naff"', Angelaki, 2:2; republished in Popular Culture, edited by Michael Pickering (2010, Sage, forthcoing), four volume edition published as part of Sage Benchmarks in Culture & Society.
(1996) 'Interdisciplinarity and Its Discontents', Angelaki, 2:2. (with Simon Wortham).
(1996) 'Asking the Question: "What is an Intellectual?"', Parallax, Vol.1, No. 2.
Edited Journal Issues
(2009) Pirate Philosophy, special 10th anniversary issue of the journal Culture Machine 10.
(2004) Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies, Culture Machine 6 (co-edited with Dave Boothroyd and Joanna Zylinska). Includes contributions from Peggy Kamuf, Mark Hansen, Paul Bowman, Clare Birchall, Stefan Herbrechter and Jeremy Gilbert.
(2003) The e-Issue, Culture Machine 5. Includes contributions from N. Katherine Hayles, Mark Amerika, Cathryn Vasseleu, Anna Munster, Chris Chesher, Gregory L. Ulmer and Bernard Stiegler.
(2000) The University Culture Machine, Culture Machine 2 (co-edited with Simon Morgan). Includes contributions from Jacques Derrida, Diane Elam, Henry Giroux, David Kolb, Ted Striphas, Stevan Harnad, Hal Varian and Samuel Weber.
(1999) Taking Risks With the Future, Culture Machine 1 (co-edited with Dave Boothroyd). Includes contributions from Lawrence Grossberg, Sue Golding, Timothy Clark, Jan Campbell, Ken Surin and Michael Naas.
(1996) Authorizing Culture (co-edited with Simon Morgan), Angelaki, 2:2. Includes contributions from Robert J. C. Young, Graham Dawson and Homi K. Bhabha.
Interviews
(2003) 'Talking Prosthetic Heads: Listening to Stelarc', Live Art Letters (with Joanna Zylinska).
(2002) 'Probings: an Interview with Stelarc' (with Joanna Zylinska). In The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, edited by Joanna Zylinska (London and New York: Continuum).
(2001) 'Responding: A Discussion with Samuel Weber', Culture Machine, InterZone (with Simon Morgan Wortham). Republished in The South Atlantic Quarterly 101:3, Summer 2002, in Simon Morgan Wortham (2003) Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading (Hampshire: Ashgate) and in Samuel Weber (2005) Theatricality as Medium (New York: Fordham University Press).
(1996) 'Rethinking Authority: An Interview with Homi K. Bhabha', Angelaki, 2:2 (with Simon Morgan).
Published conference proceedings
(2008) ‘Hyper-Cyprus’, proceedings of the Second International Conference in Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus, May 2-4, 2007.
(2007) 'Beyond Impact: OA in the Humanities' (with Sigi Jottkandt), 'How to Increase Your Impact with Open Access', Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brussels, 13 February.
(2002) 'The Politics and Ethics of Electronic Archiving', The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, edited by John Frow, Old College, University of Edinburgh.
Professional activities
Co-founder of Open Humanities Press (OHP), the first open-access publishing house dedicated to contemporary critical and cultural theory. OHP was established in 2006 and launched in 2008 by an international group of scholars in response to the perceived crisis in academic publishing. OHP’s board includes Alain Badiou, Gert Buelens, Barbara Cohen, Tom Cohen, Steven Connor, Denise Troll Covey, Jonathan Culler, Mark Davis, Ortwin de Graef, Wlad Godzich, Stephen Greenblatt, Lawrence Grossberg, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Katie King, Douglas Kellner, Kyoo Lee, Alan Liu, J. Hillis Miller, Jerome McGann, Antonio Negri, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Dany Nobus, István Rév, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Peter Suber, William B. Warner, John Willinsky. OHP was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education: see Jennifer Howard, ‘New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut’: Wednesday, May 7, 2008. An interview with Gary Hall discussing OHP was published by Tracey Caldwell as part of ‘OA in the Humanities Badlands’, Information World Review, 04 June, 2008.
An OHP monograph series project, run in collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office, and the Public Knowledge Project headed by John Willinsky of Stanford University (which is currently developing an equivalent for monographs to their Open Journal Systems) is forthcoming. OHP is launching its monograph project with 5 book series: New Metaphysics, edited by Bruno Latour and Graham Harman; Critical Climate Change, edited by Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook, Global Conversations by Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Unidentified Theoretical Objects by Wlad Godzich; and Liquid Books by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall.
Series Editor of the Culture Machine Liquid Books series of digital books, published by Open Humanities Press.
Volume 1. New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader, edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall
Volume 2. The Post-Corporate University, ‘curated’ by Davin Heckman
Volume 3. Technology and Cultural Form, openly written and edited by Joanna Zylinska and the students on the MA Digital Media at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Volume 4. Wyrd to the Wiki: Lacunae Toward Wiki Ontologies, openly and collaboratively written by Shareriff (Trey Conner, University of South Florida) and mobius (Richard Doyle, Penn State University)
Series Editor of the Culture Machine book series (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004-2008), which brought together writers from relevant arts, social sciences and humanities disciplines: literary, critical and cultural theory; cultural, media and communication studies; new media; art history; anthropology; continental philosophy; sociology and political science. Titles in the Berg Culture Machine book series included:
• Paul Virilio's City of Panic (2005)
• Clare Birchall, Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Celebrity Gossip (2006)
• Charlie Gere, Art, Time & Technology: A History of the Disappearing Body (2006)
• Jeremy Gilbert, Anti-Capitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics (2008)
Series Editor (with Chris Hables Gray) Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory (London and New York: Continuum, 2000 to 2004), a series of books in critical and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and the history and philosophy of science. Publications in the Technologies series included:
• Graham MacPhee, The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture (2002)
• Adrian Mackenzie, Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed (2002)
• Joanna Zylinska, ed., The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (2002)
• David Tomas, Beyond the Image Machine: A History of Visual Technologies (2004)
Founder (with Dave Boothroyd) of Culture Machine, an international, online, peer-reviewed journal of cultural studies and cultural theory. Culture Machine's international editorial board includes Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf, Alphonso Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton and Avital Ronell. The journal provides an ideal opportunity to explore the possibilities and problems posed for research into cultural, sociological, aesthetic and political questions by new media technologies. Culture Machine was launched in February 1999. Distinguished contributors to Culture Machine include Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Diane Elam, Henry A. Giroux, Lawrence Grossberg, N. Katherine Hayles, Peggy Kamuf, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Mark Poster, Bernard Stiegler and Gregory L. Ulmer.
Director of the cultural studies open access archive CSeARCH.
Contributing Editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, awarded Best New Journal by the Modern Language Association of America's 1996 Council of Editors of Learned Journals and described Prof. Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) as the 'most innovative and exciting new British journal in the field of literary and cultural theory to have appeared in recent years'.
Member of the Editorial Board of Postgraduate English, an Internet journal designed to meet the needs of UK-based postgraduate students in English (launch - Jan. 2000).
Member of the Editorial Board of Mediactive, a peer-reviewed journal in media and cultural studies published by Lawrence and Wishart.
Member of the Editorial Board of Cultural Studies (Routledge/Taylor and Francis).
Member of the Editorial Board of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Routledge/Taylor and Francis)
Member of the Editorial and Advisory Board of Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (Intellect)
Member of the Steering Group of the Siobhan Davies Dance Digital Archive project, funded by an AHRC Resource Enhancement Scheme grant.
Associate Member of the Creative Media Forum, based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Edu-Factory journal.
Founder member of the Network for Editors of Interdisciplinary Journals (established 2008). The NEIJ held its first conference, entitled ‘Interdisciplinary in the Arts and Humanities: Research, Publishing, Policy’ conference, at the Swedenborg Society, London, 20 March, 2009.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Leonardo Journal and MIT Press)
Visiting Fellow in The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge (2010).
Associate Member, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.