Radical Open Access and the Politics of Publishing. A Genealogy of Affinities and Correlations Janneke Adema Coventry University Radical Open Access Conference Panel 4. ‘Open’: Alternative Genealogies

Open Access Secrecy Access Dissemination Experimentation Politics and Ethics

Secrecy

Pamela Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

Access

Janneke Adema and Gary Hall, ‘The Political Nature of the Book: On Artists’ Books and Radical Open Access’, New Formations 78 (1) (2013) 138–156.

Printed Matter (1976)

Dissemination

Ted Striphas and Mark Hayward. “Working Papers in Cultural Studies, or, the Virtues of Grey Literature.” New formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics. Vol. 78 (2013), pp

CCCS Occasional and Working Papers

Stuart Hall “We did not think of these as necessarily finished products. We wanted to publicize the work we were doing to any other intellectual communities that might have been interested (without knowing who they were necessarily) and to a wider public. And we wanted to know who was interested, and to converse with them.”

Radical Pamphlets

Guerilla Open Access “Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends. But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral — it's a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.”

Piracy

Experimentation

David Stairs – Boundless (1983)

Politics & Ethics