meson press publishes research on digital cultures and networked media. Our open access publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities of today.

We combine a rigorous peer-review with hybrid formats and collaborative production methods. As a cooperative, meson press is organized in a participated setup. This allows scholars to take part in a publishing venture by academics for academics and for everyone else who is curious about theory.

In the hybrid environment of today’s scholarly publishing, form follows function in a new manner. meson press books take pride in the haptic elegance of print and are designed to transfer this to a digital set-up. To ensure this, our print and digital editions have been developed in collaboration with the Berlin based book and web designers Torsten Köchlin and Silke Krieg.

meson press books are printed on-demand and distributed worldwide to be available far beyond Europe including the UK, US, and South America. Our digital editions are available for free download on the internet. To ensure the authors’ rights as well as the openness of published monographs, meson press is committed to publish under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license if possible.

meson press is a cooperative initiated by Mercedes Bunz, Marcus Burkhardt and Andreas Kirchner, and grew out of the Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg that looked into the effects of digitalization on academic communication and publishing.

The Monoskop Index brings together on one page selections from several sections of Monoskop Wiki and Log. It contains topics, concepts, practices, places, events and persons relevant for the studies of art, media and the humanities. Its form combines elements of the book index, library catalog and tag cloud, listing alphabetically sorted subjects together with links to pages containing organised source material.

By far the largest part is formed by top 500 thematic tags from Monoskop Log, each linking eight or more full-text publications, mostly books, while some themes also have dedicated wiki pages. The 100 persons--artists, makers and writers--are taken from the Features section and their linked wiki pages consist primarily from chronologies and bibliographies of their work, some accompanied with biographies. Artistic and cultural techniques and practices are represented by about 70 items with wiki resources. The 20th-century avant-garde art and modernism is also organised by country, currently in 23 entries, while more than 50 included city entries map the contemporary media culture infrastructure.

The index continues to grow along with the inclusion of new material to the website. For an overview organised by sections, see Contents.

Luther Blisset, net.gener@ationmanifesto delle nuove libertà1 edizione, febbraio 1996il libro beffa alla casa editrice...

Through the projects and activities contained in this book, it is possible to understand how the central component of networking in Italy is the web of relations: going to a conference, participating in a festival, talking and sharing projects with others, organising a thematic meeting and at the same time, meeting in a bar or a restaurant with people who share our interests, become creative occasions to produce new activities and projects.