Postdigital Publishing

Although digital technologies promised a renaissance in the publishing industries, publishers still struggle with digital innovations and try to hold on to traditional workflows, production, form and business models. How can we open-up this top-down mode of communication? In this episode we discuss the future of (digital) publishing through interviews with Janneke Adema, Michael Dieter, Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke. How to approach the act of publishing (digital) in the postdigital age? What happens when we approach the book as an apparatus and what does that mean for the book as we know it? What does is mean for the notion of the author and the reader when we perform the book differently?

In the studio: Miriam Rasch, Leonieke van Dipten

Contributors: Janneke Adema, Michael Dieter, Daniel Rourke, Moreshin Allahyari.

Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, March 2017.

Resources:

Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, The 3D Additivist Cookbook (2016), Institute of Network Cultures

Janneke Adema and Gary Hall, Posthumanities: The Dark Side of “The Dark Side of the Digital”(2016), Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities

Alessandro Ludovico, Post-Digital Print: The Mutation Of Publishing Since 1894 (2012), Onomatopee