Geoff Cox: Launching Books: The Politics of Open Infrastructures & Publishing as Collective Infrastructure
Two book launches coming up with related themes:
👉 Book launch and discussion: The Politics of Open Infrastructures
28 October, 2026, 5-7 PM
Borough Road Gallery,
LSBU, 103 Borough Road,
SE1 0AA.
Presentations by Renée Ridgway (Visiting Research Fellow, LSBU), Nicolas Malevé (Postdoc, Sciences Po) & Lucy Barnes (Open Book Publishers), moderated by Geoff Cox (Digital x Data Research Centre, LSBU).
👉 Book Launch and talks: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure, with Minor Compositions
What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure?
7 November, 2026, 7-8:30 PM
Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Rd,
London N1 9DY,
United Kingdom
Doors Open at 6:45pm, Event Starts 7:00.
More information and links below:
Bringing together scholars from science and technology studies, critical data studies, media studies, organisation studies, arts-based research and political sociology, The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices examines how openness is designed, governed, contested and lived in contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures. From open source software and internet standards, to citizen science platforms, public sector data systems and alternative computing practices, the book shows that infrastructures are never neutral technical backbones. They are deeply political arrangements that embed values, distribute power and shape whose knowledge counts.
More details on the book.
Join for talk, Q&A and a reception.
What if a book wasn’t an endpoint but an infrastructure?
This title is less a ‘book’ than it is a radical rethinking of the book-form itself; formulated as a collectively authored, polyphonic work; an intervention into the realms of academic and open-access publishing. The project is grounded in experimentation and the bridging of theory and practice. It works to challenge proprietary software and big-tech dependency, orientating itself towards a future mode of publishing that must address the direct crises of precarity and education.