A member of the Radical Open Access Collective, Culture Machine is a series of experiments in culture and theory. Since 1999, it has sought out and promoted scholarly work that engages provocatively with contemporary technical objects, processes and imaginaries from the North and South. Building on its open ended, non-instrumental, and exploratory approach to media theory, cultural studies and political philosophy, Culture Machine welcomes creative proposals that contest and come up against globalizing technical narratives and the environmental logics of extraction.
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Rebekka Kiesewetter deposited Guest-Editorial Notes (after Progress?) (introduction for special issue ‘Publishing after Progress’ Culture Machine 23) in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks agoThe special issue ‘Publishing after Progress’ brings together a series of reflections and discussions that illuminate the current state of scholarly publishing. It highlights the field’s ongoing commercial and technological consolidation, evolving under the rhetoric of internationalisation, excellence, and modern capitalist progress as an…[Read more]
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Rebekka Kiesewetter deposited Experiments towards Editing Otherwise in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks agoIn the context of my own position as a humanities scholar in the UK, in this article, I look at the way in which universities have operationalised a system in which the measures of scholarly prestige, success, and distinction are increasingly monopolised by large publishing corporations, mainly based in the West. This evolution has reinforced a…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Reverse Scholarship as Solidarity After Progress in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoIs there a universal consensus among scholars regarding what counts as ‘progress’ in scholarly quality assessment through academic publishing? While consensus among scholars seems unlikely given the diversity of contexts and disciplines in which scholarship takes place, the higher education institutions on which most scholars depend, inc…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Anthropocene Infrapolitics Introduction & Table of Contents in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoThis is the Guest Editors’ Introduction and the Table of Contents (with hyperlinks) of Anthropocene Infrapolitics, vol 23 of Culture Machine.
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Rebekka Kiesewetter started the topic Culture Machine Vol. 23 (2024) Publishing After Progress in the discussion
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoVol. 23 (2024)
Publishing After Progress
Progress …. might well have the character of a quicksand, suffusing the very modern mode of evaluation from which the values of global development, infinite growth, scientific advance, technological innovation, salvage accumulation, and ethical betterment are derived. And it is one w…[Read more] -
Nigel Clark deposited La justicia y el cambio climático abrupto in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoTraducción parcial, por Irina López Rodríguez y Gabriela Méndez Cota, del capítulo 5, ‘Justice and Abrupt Climate Change’, de Clark, N. (2011) Inhuman Nature. Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet. London: Sage, 107-136.
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Nigel Clark deposited Molten Praxis: Infrapolitics and the Inner-Outer Earth Juncture in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoSetting out from accounts of metal working by authors Colson Whitehead and Toni Morrison, the paper looks at how heat-induced transformation of inorganic matter is at once a condition of possibility of modern politics and tends to overflow politicization. While Anthropocene science directs attention to the interaction between the flows of the…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Infrapolitical Epimetheia: A Wondrous Machine in the group
Culture Machine on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThis essay derives from a conference paper in Spanish titled Figuras de Epimeteo, which revisited interpretations of the Greek myth of Epimetheus, the forgetful brother of Prometheus and the forgotten husband of Pandora. Ivan Illich (1922-2002) and Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020) borrowed the figure of Epimetheus in the process of elaborating an…[Read more]
