Experimental Publishing as Collective Struggle. Providing Imaginaries for Posthumanist Knowledge Production

Experimental publishing in an academic setting entails, among other<br/>things, a critical re-examination of how our systems and structures of<br/>knowledge production are currently constructed and reproduced in<br/>ways that are both exclusionary and legitimise the structural violence<br/>of our neoliberal publishing institutions. Reimaging and, crucially,<br/>reperforming the way we publish and make research public by<br/>experimenting with alternative more critical and relational ways to<br/>share our research, forms part of a wider attempt to create more<br/>ethical and equitable scholarly forms, institutions, and practices.<br/>This article expands existing research on experimental publishing by<br/>making connections to current work done by critical feminist,<br/>postcolonial, and anti-racist scholars. Drawing on this work and on<br/>two recent publishing projects (Cita Press and the <i>Combinatorial<br/>Books</i> book series) that are experimenting with <i>republishing</i> and<br/><i>rewriting</i>, this article puts forward the argument that experimental<br/>publishing is an inherently interventionist and activist practice that<br/>plays an essential role in firstly breaking through how knowledge is<br/>disciplined, reproduced, and normalised, while secondly providing<br/>imaginaries for how authors and publishers can start to make<br/>interventions in the way they publish and share research.