The Gutenberg Parenthesis

Publishing is fucked. The ATmosphere could save it. | Paul Stephenson | Offprint

Building a future for publishing that keeps authors and readers at its heart.

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction by Mairead Small Staid

February 8, 2019 – Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.” Have his fears and projections come to pass?

Family Media Archivist Series — Part 1

Capture and Conversion

The Skeleton Library

On Interpolatable Archives, Part 1: Compulsions to Connect, Warburg, Borges and Goldsmith, Cultural Technologies and Digital Oralities

Academia: The Evolving Case For Reading

Thursday's Child Has Far to Go

What’s Happening to Reading?

For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.

Maidan, Krim und Russland: Eine Medien-Frame-Analyse deutscher Print-Berichterstattung im Februar und März 2014

Eine Medien-Frame-Analyse deutscher Print-Berichterstattung im Februar und März 2014

Introducing Aris: The publishing platform for the Post-PDF Era - Aris

We're building the future of academic publishing: tools that make it easy to create, share, and preserve knowledge in formats designed for the web, not the printing press.

Permutation: Issue One

A magazine of weird, forward-gazing writing.

A New Paradigm for Scientific Publishing, Peer Review, and Impact Assessment

Scientific publishing and peer review have evolved little in three centuries, while the demands placed on them have grown profoundly. The growing role of artificial intelligence has underscored deep, systemic shortcomings of an aging system that has largely evaded innovation, a system whose origins are appallingly closer to the invention of the printing press than to the internet. We can do better – much better. This article is intended as the beginning of a communal experiment: a living document that critically reviews the modern academic publishing and peer-review system and presents a concrete framework to address what bibliometrics experts¹ have characterized as "the pervasive misapplication of indicators to the evaluation of scientific performance". Building on the Leiden Manifesto, DORA, and a body of scholarship spanning many disciplines and decades, we present a community-governed, non-profit platform organized around three trust-weighted impact factors, for articles, authors, and reviewers, with full algorithmic transparency, an open development log, and structural decoupling of credibility scoring from content moderation and from monetization. We invite the community to discuss, critique, and help shape it.

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (v2.0, 2025)

POSI version 2.0 released October 2025 The POSI Adopters reviewed the version 1.1 principles and consulted with the community to create version 2.0, released in October 2025. The new/always-current …

More Work For Mother

In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and w...