“This book offers a different approach to publishing
production and distribution – one less extractive in its
use of resources. Our approach is grounded in collective
working practices and shared values that push back
against dominant big tech/corporations and the drive
toward seamless interfaces and scale-up efficiency.
Crucially, it addresses the disjunction between the
critical rigour of academic texts and and the uncritical
production modes that sustain them. By criticality, we
mean going beyond a criticism of conventional publishing
to acknowledge the ways in which we are implicated at
all levels in the choices we make when engaging with
publishing practices. This includes not only the tools
we use – to design, write, review, and edit – but also
the broader infrastructures such as the platforms and
servers through which they operate. This reflexivity has
guided our approach throughout the project: moving
beyond the notion of the book as a discrete object
toward conceiving it as a relational assemblage in which
its constituent parts mutually depend on and transform
one another in practice”
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