VALA2010 Plenary 6 Wark

VALA20120The Networked Book

VALA 2010 PLENARY 6: Mckenzie Wark
Thursday 11 February 2010 15:55 – 17:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-6-wark

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerMckenzie Wark

Associate Professor of Media Studies, Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research, New York, USA
http://www.newschool.edu and http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark

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Abstract

In 2007 I collaborated with the Institute for the Book on a ‘networked book’ version of Gamer Theory, which was later published in the old dead tree format by Harvard University Press. That experience led all of us on a merry chase after solutions to many problems, some technical, some economic, some cultural. In this presentation I will sum up that experience and try to draw some lessons from it for future experiments that lie at the intersection of publishing, librarianship and writing, at a time when the boundaries between these professions are interestingly fluid.