PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions

A panel talk and launch for the book Publishing as Collective Infrastructure, a collectively authored, polyphonic work that rethinks the book-form as an intervention into academic and open-access publishing. Emerging from the ServPub project, it brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to examine how publishing is shaped by extractive platforms, proprietary software, unpaid labour, and opaque infrastructures. The book, involving In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, and Systerserver with further contributions, documents alternative models grounded in free and open-source tools, collective authorship, feminist care practices, and self-hosted, small-scale infrastructures. Tickets are on a sliding scale, with free tickets available on request.