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Gary Hall is a [[London]]-based cultural and media theorist working on new media technologies, continental philosophy and cultural studies. He is Professor of Media and Performing Arts in the School of Art and Design at Coventry University, UK, author of ''Culture in Bits'' (Continuum, 2002) and ''Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now'' (Minnesota UP, 2008), and co-editor of ''New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory'' (Edinburgh UP, 2006) and ''Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber'' (Fordham UP, 2007). He is also founding co-editor of the open access journal [[Culture Machine]], co-founder of the [[Open Humanities Press]] and co-editor of OHP's [[Culture Machine Liquid Books]] series. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Angelaki, Cultural Politics, Cultural Studies, Parallax and The Oxford Literary Review. In 2010 he was Visiting Fellow in The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. Together with Clare Birchall and Joanna Zylinska he recently published the JISC-funded project ''Living Books about Life'' (Open Humanities Press, 2011), a sustainable series of twenty one open access books about life - with life understood both philosophically and biologically - which provides a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. Currently he is developing a series of politico-institutional interventions - dubbed activist scholarship or 'deconstructions in the public sphere' - which draw on digital media to actualise or creatively perform critical and cultural theory; and writing two monographs: ''Media Gifts'', designed as a follow-up to ''Digitize This Book!''; and ''There Are No Digital Humanities''.  
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'''Gary Hall''' is a media theorist and philosopher working in the areas of art, culture, politics and technology, based in [[London]]. He is Professor of Media and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media, at Coventry University, UK. He is author of ''Pirate Philosophy'' (MIT Press, 2016), ''The Uberfication of the University'' (Minnesota UP, 2016), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=571 Digitize This Book!]'' (Minnesota UP, 2008), and ''Culture in Bits'' (Continuum, 2002). He is also co-author of ''Públicos Fantasma - La Naturaleza Política Del Libro - La Red'' (Taller de Ediciones, 2016) and ''Open Education'' (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), and co-editor of ''Experimenting'' (Fordham UP, 2007) and ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=343 New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory]'' (with Clare Birchall, Edinburgh UP, 2006).  
  
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In 1999 he co-founded the critical theory journal ''[http://culturemachine.net Culture Machine]''. In 2006 he co-founded [http://openhumanitiespress.org/ Open Humanities Press] (OHP). He also co-edits OHP's [http://liquidbooks.pbwiki.com/ Liquid Books] series and the Jisc-funded [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/ Living Books About Life] series (with [[Clare Birchall]] and [[Joanna Zylinska]]).
  
http://www.garyhall.info/
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He has given lectures and seminars at institutions around the world including the Australian National University, Columbia University, European University Institute, University of Heidelberg, University of Calfornia, Irvine, K.U. Leuven, Lund University, Monash University, New York University, University of Southern California, the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.  With over thirty peer-reviewed publications in edited books and academic journals including ''American Literature, Angelaki, Cultural Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, New Formations, The Oxford Literary Review'' and ''Radical Philosophy'', his work has been translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Turkish, Russian, Spanish and Slovenian. He is currently developing a series of [http://garyhall.squarespace.com/about/ politico-institutional interventions] that draw on digital media to actualise, or creatively perform, critical theory; and completing a new monograph, ''Data Commonism vs ÜberCapitalism''.
  
[[Category:Digital humanities|Hall, Gary]]
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* [http://www.garyhall.info Home page]
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* [http://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/gary-hall Profile on U Coventry]
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* [https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/ Centre for Postdigital Cultures]
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* [http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Centre for Disruptive Media]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hall_(academic) Wikipedia]

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Gary Hall is a media theorist and philosopher working in the areas of art, culture, politics and technology, based in London. He is Professor of Media and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media, at Coventry University, UK. He is author of Pirate Philosophy (MIT Press, 2016), The Uberfication of the University (Minnesota UP, 2016), Digitize This Book! (Minnesota UP, 2008), and Culture in Bits (Continuum, 2002). He is also co-author of Públicos Fantasma - La Naturaleza Política Del Libro - La Red (Taller de Ediciones, 2016) and Open Education (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), and co-editor of Experimenting (Fordham UP, 2007) and New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (with Clare Birchall, Edinburgh UP, 2006).

In 1999 he co-founded the critical theory journal Culture Machine. In 2006 he co-founded Open Humanities Press (OHP). He also co-edits OHP's Liquid Books series and the Jisc-funded Living Books About Life series (with Clare Birchall and Joanna Zylinska).

He has given lectures and seminars at institutions around the world including the Australian National University, Columbia University, European University Institute, University of Heidelberg, University of Calfornia, Irvine, K.U. Leuven, Lund University, Monash University, New York University, University of Southern California, the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. With over thirty peer-reviewed publications in edited books and academic journals including American Literature, Angelaki, Cultural Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, New Formations, The Oxford Literary Review and Radical Philosophy, his work has been translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Turkish, Russian, Spanish and Slovenian. He is currently developing a series of politico-institutional interventions that draw on digital media to actualise, or creatively perform, critical theory; and completing a new monograph, Data Commonism vs ÜberCapitalism.

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