ServPub

https://ctp.cc.au.dk/pad/p/servpub_book

 

ServPub

The proposed book is an extension of the platform ServPub, a social and technical infrastructure for research and practice in experimental publishing. It is developed by a collective of scholars, artists, activists, designers, creative technologists, working together to develop a self-hosted and self-organised sustainable resource and workflow for book production that challenges normative open publishing paradigms. The resulting publication will be both a critical account of the process of production and at the same time detailed documentation that allows others/publishers to produce/fork their own versions.

See more info herefor the Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’

Servpub involves the following groups: Slade School of Fine Art, part of the University College London; CSNI, a research centre at London South Bank University; SHAPE, a research project at Aarhus University focussed on digital citizenship; Minor Compositions, a publisher of books and media drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday life; In-grid, a London-based trans*feminist collective of artists/educators/technologists working in and around digital infrastructure; Syster Server, an international collective run by feminists that offers internet-based FOSS tools to its network of feminists, queers and trans; Creative Crowds, a shared server for FLOSS publishing experiments to explore how different ways of working are shaped by (and shape) different realities.

Editorial contributions

• Chapter 1: Collectivities and Methods
• Chapter 2a: Server Issues: Platform Infrastructure
• Chapter 2b: Server Issues: Networked Infrastructure
• Chapter 3: Praxis Doubling
• Chapter 4a: Computational Publishing
• Chapter 4b: Public: FLOSS Design
• Chapter 4c: Publishing & Distribution
• Chapter 5a: Research Publication
• Chapter 5b: Distribution