Just finished reading:
**Post-Digital Print – the Mutation of Publishing Since 1894*** (*Alessandro Ludovico, 2012)
Definitely recommended. The book details the history of the presumed death of print. It's super interesting, entertaining and contains references to lots of cool art projects.
Print copy available at: https://www.setmargins.press/books/post-digital-print/
Post-digital
“We think of the post-digital as a social condition emerging in response to digitalization. It is a condition […] in which digital communication is (a) inevitable and expected, and (b) inherently problematic, because of the ways (c) it links empowerment and appropriation to being surveilled, controlled, and subject to the planting of internalized compulsions […] the post-digital evolves as a dialectical counterforce.”
André Jansson, Karin Fast, Paul C. Adams
Jansson, André, Karin Fast, and Paul C. Adams. “The Coming of the Post-Digital Workplace? A Survey of How White-Collar Workers Experience and Cope with Digital Media Reliance.” Digital Geography and Society, April 17, 2025, 100121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100121.
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By Alessandro Ludovico
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#postdigital #postdigitalprintmaking #publishing #artbook #printedmatter #independentpublishing #graphicdesignhistory #setmarginspublications
#ChatGPT & Co seem to make research easier. But in reality, they fuel the publish-or-perish race, push admins to demand more papers, more grants, more outputs, erode the very idea of scholarly work:
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-023-00440-6
Embrace slow #science – quality over quantity.
Resist AI-driven academic exploitation – don’t let universities use #AI to push researchers harder.
Reclaim meaningful #scholarship – real discussions, critical thinking, true collaboration.
The last episode on @neil_selwyn ‘s education technology society podcast is so on point.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/education-technology-society/id1690328180?i=1000698248676
I love that he addresses the insecurity created by dependency and emotional buy-in of corporate platforms.
I also appreciate that he is on the Fediverse so as to avoid these platform lock-ins.
If you get a chance to hear this podcast episode (and I highly recommend you do even if you are not an educator), then may I also recommend you let Prof. Selwyn know here on Mastodon how educational these podcasts are and how interesting the guests are.
Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and its Post-Publishing research strand invite applications to a fully-funded PhD studentship that explores alternative #publishing practices and formats and discusses their potential to cultivate more supportive, diverse, and equitable publishing cultures.
Application deadline: 30 April 2025
Start date: September 2025
Full details on eligibility and how to apply are available here:
#AcademicPublishing #phd #PhdStudentship #postdigital #digitalhumanities #digital #experimentalpublishing
@GottaLaff practicing #SmallWeb may not fix the problem but might mitigate some of the throttling. Maybe it is time to return to ascii art for memes?
But seriously, it will be “HD AI auto play Videos” on one end and Markdown text files on the other of the future digital divide.
Our #postdigital lives do not have a reverse gear, and I look forward to logging into my bank via ssh. 🙄
Free
No subscriptions
No in-app purchases
No ads
No tracking / collecting data
And sustainable…
This is indeed the holy grail of #edtech .
And I feel it will only work if we can change the landscape and the soil used to cultivate educational digital tools.
While it is great to follow Eduction Science Technology podcast by @neil_selwyn . It supper fun to listen with the transcript flowing next to it so you can scrub to repeat name or check institutions. It is like being at a really interesting dinner party and just listening to super interesting conversations between the guests.
Oh and if you are into digital compost there is a great read by Sinclair, C., Hayes, S.
Between the Post and the Com-Post: Examining the Postdigital ‘Work’ of a Prefix. Postdigit Sci Educ 1, 119–131 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-018-0017-4
Also, check out Boyd, S. (2018). Making digital compost: place-responsive pedagogy at a distance. Zagreb: Paper presented
at the Networked Learning Conference.
Und eine tolle Diskussion bei solchen Gelegenheiten auch darüber zu sprechen in welcher Umgebung wir zukünftig arbeiten wollen
#newwork #bibliotheken #postdigital
Reading Hall’s 2021 Postdigital Politics, and love how he address enshitification without mentioning it by highlighting how Silicon Valley companies are not engaging with logical reasoning or verified information that would allow their products to blend with actual bioinformational progress. Instead the focus is on extreme displays of dopamine-generating emotion to keep audience hooked and drive profits (p.11).
It really highlight a question for EdTech: Do we actually need push notifications for educational apps? (Or any app for that matter?).
When we consider the postdigital imbedding of technology deeply integrated into our lives, is it not time to stop all the intrusions? Are notifications really just minimalist adds for corporate apps to force our engagement?
Frankly, an RSS feed would serve better than all the red dot and vibrations.
Here is the DOI:
Extended Version : http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/e1bn-s194
Audiovisual Disruption proposes to dismantle the apparatus of audiovisual
arts and to rethink it from a post-digital perspective based on hybridisation. Post-digital aesthetics are grounded in impure aesthetic manifestations that exploit the effects of digital computational systems as they deeply permeate all parts of our contemporary life.
https://www.transcript-publishing.com/search?sSearch=978-3-8394-7416-7
#postdigital #aesthetics #audiovisual #art #mediatheory #book #DigitalArt #analog #hybrid
AUDIOVISUAL DISRUPTION is out!
The book examines four post-digital territories by looking on the digital infrastructure, within the effects of digital media, in-between digital and non-digital media as hybrids, and off digital media in a turn to analogue media. It offers a series of artworks that are critical to the effects of digital technologies in the post-digital age.
#postdigital #audiovisual #art #analogue #digital #hybrid #mediatheory #practice #research #book
https://www.transcript-publishing.com/search?sSearch=978-3-8394-7416-7
Reading Macgilchrist for breakfast and I am struck by the line:
“designing EdTech is ontological in that it opens up — beyond ways of learning and ways of teaching — possible or impossible ways of doing, ways of being, and ways of desiring.”
The idea that students should see their own potential from classroom practices seems so logical for education, but sadly a lot of classroom time is completing task that students see as having no connection to their own being. And why is this?
Education should be transformative allowing for a qualitative change, not just incremental growth. But unless students feel entangle with the discussion and can “feel” how it affects them and their personal growth then a transformative qualitative emergence is lost.
This is the cost of education for testing. This is what the current forces of #EdTech are pushing for at light speed. In a test-oriented education industry where the testing means of production are completely owned by the tech monopolies, all future definitions of education will be dictated by the technocrats remotely and at speed.
This is the colonization of education through EdTech, with remote dictators, value extraction, and labor exploitation of the academic population.
We need digital sovereignty, and we need it today.
Here is the doi:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00389-y
Edit: Just realized @discoursology is on mastodon, so added.
And should mention that if you are doing COIL, this paper is a great read before planning your next exchange.
#digitalsovereignty #DigitalColonization #postdigital #designforlearning
Okay I know this is probably not the place for this or maybe it is, but …
Tony Reeves has a great paper from 2018 called A Postdigital Perspective on Organisations. I say it is great because you finish with ponderous thoughts, but not feeling completely depressed. I find that research papers rarely finish on an upbeat tone.
Unfortunately, the paper is from 2018, and now I am afraid to see what else Reeves has said since then… 🫣.
Regardless, I think I want try have a greater optimism vs frustration ration in my writing.
Here is the doi:
The term ‘Gutenbergian’ media technologies makes print sound very old.
Did I mention there is a great interview with Audrey Waters on the #EducationTechnologySociety . Check out S1E02 and then check out The Monsters of Education Technology.
