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(FRONT COVER)

Publishing as Collective Infrastructure

In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, and Systerserver, with contributions from Constant, Creative Crowds, Hackers & Designers, OBF Experimental Publishing Group, TITiPI, & Varia.

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(REAR COVER)

Publishing as Collective Infrastructure

In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, and Systerserver, with contributions from Constant, Creative Crowds, Hackers & Designers, OBF Experimental Publishing Group, TITiPI, & Varia.

Publishing as Collective Infrastructure challenges the idea of the book as a fixed object and reimagines publishing as a collective, political, and infrastructural practice. Emerging from the ServPub project, this book brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to expose how contemporary publishing is shaped by extractive platforms, proprietary software, unpaid labour, and opaque infrastructures. Against this backdrop, the authors develop and document alternative models grounded in free and open-source tools, collective authorship, feminist care practices, and self-hosted, small-scale infrastructures. Rather than offering a blueprint, the book functions as a living experiment and pedagogical resource. It invites readers to think with – and work through – the infrastructures that make publishing possible, and to imagine how knowledge might be produced and shared otherwise.

Publishing as Collective Infrastructure does not have a single, unified author. Instead, it is a polyphonic work shaped by the shared labor, ideas, and practices of multiple collectives and projects which reflect the book’s commitment to publishing as a social, infrastructural, and political process rather than an individual achievement.

Supported by Open Book Futures
Published by Minor Compositions
https://www.minorcompositions.info

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