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<p>Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's MEDIA :
ART : WRITE : NOW series:</p>
<p><i>Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of
Artificial Creative Intelligence </i>by Gary Hall<br>
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href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/</a>
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style="color:windowtext">Like all Open Humanities Press books, <i>Masked
Media </i>is available open access (= it can be downloaded
for free)<span></span></span></p>
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style="color:windowtext">Book description<span></span></span></b></p>
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style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">If
we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a
radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? It’s
this question Gary Hall and his collaborators have been addressing
for over twenty years with experimental publishing projects such
as Open Humanities Press, Liquid and Living Books, and the
Culture-Led Re-Commoning of Cities. Unsettling received ideas of
the author and the book, originality and copyright, real and
artificial intelligence, these uncommon communities of
theorist-mediums are testing the ‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of
creating and sharing knowledge enabled by various media
technologies, from writing and print, through photography and
video, to computers and GenAI. By thinking outside the masked
black box that renders Euro-Western knowledge-making practices
invisible – keeping the human ontologically separate from the
nonhuman, be it animals, the planet or algorithmic machines – they
show there’s no such thing as the human, the nonhuman already
being in(the)human.<span></span></p>
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style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i>Masked
Media</i> is one such experimental project. It is not a
‘human-authored’ work. Instead, the thinking within it has been
generated by a radically relational assemblage that includes AI
and more. Although the book appears under a real name – ‘Gary
Hall’ – which, like Banksy and Karen Eliot, acts as a mask, it is
not the intellectual property of a singular human individual, and
is published under a Collective Conditions for Re-Use licence to
reflect this. <i>Masked Media</i> shows how such norm-critical
experimentation is of vital importance to our understanding of
everything, from identity politics and the decolonisation of
knowledge, through epistemologies of the Global South and the
possibilities of open city infrastructure, to extractive
capitalism, planetary destruction and the Anthropocene. It thus
constitutes a call to radically redesign theory for a time of
multiple crises.<span></span></p>
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style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">In <i>Masked
Media</i>, a follow-up to <i>A Stubborn Fury</i>, Hall proceeds
to show how our ways of writing and working can be reinvented to
produce a more socially just future after the years of austerity
and the coronavirus pandemic.<span></span></p>
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bio</b><span></span></p>
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Hall is an experimental critical theorist working at the
intersection of digital culture, politics and technology. He is
Professor of Media at Coventry University, UK, where he served as
founding director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures from 2017
to 2025. He is the author of a number of books, including <i>A
Stubborn Fury</i> (Open Humanities Press, 2021), <i>Pirate
Philosophy</i> (MIT Press, 2016) and <i>The Uberfication of the
University</i> (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).<span></span></p>
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<p>(Apologies for the self-promotion. But since I'm the one often
responsible for sending such messages on behalf of OHP, I guess
it's going to happen, if only now and again.)</p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/">https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/</a>
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
Website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Blog posts: 'Making it Unfair, or Who Owns Creativity? AI, Copyright and the Battle for Wealth and Control', <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/2/25/making-it-unfair-or-who-owns-creativity-ai-copyright-and-the.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/2/25/making-it-unfair-or-who-owns-creativity-ai-copyright-and-the.html</a>
'The Afterlife of the AI Author': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/1/22/the-afterlife-of-the-ai-author.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/1/22/the-afterlife-of-the-ai-author.html</a>
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