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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1918">Publishing as
Collective Infrastructure</a></b>
<p><i>What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure?</i></p>
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<p><i>Publishing as Collective Infrastructure</i> 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.</p>
Blending theory, documentation, and reflection, the book explores
publishing as a full-stack practice: spanning writing, design,
software, servers, logistics, and governance. It addresses topics
including ambulant servers, wiki-to-print workflows, versioning and
forking books, radical referencing, and autonomous publishing, while
situating these practices within broader debates on infrastructure,
open access, and knowledge politics. Rather than offering a
blueprint, <i>Publishing as Collective Infrastructure</i> 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.<br>
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<b>Bio:</b> <i>Publishing as Collective Infrastructure</i> 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 working across experimental publishing,
feminist infrastructure, open-source design, and autonomous
knowledge production. The book emerges from collaborations involving
In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, and Systerserver, with
contributions from Constant, Creative Crowds, Hackers &
Designers, OBF Experimental Publishing Group, TITiPI, & Varia.
Together, these groups contribute situated perspectives, technical
practices, and collective forms of authorship that reflect the
book’s commitment to publishing as a social, infrastructural, and
political process.<br>
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PDF available freely online. Available direct from Minor
Compositions site. <br>
Release to book trade 15 January 2027<br>
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