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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
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Several of our authors have received AI-generated marketing emails evidently based on a “reading” of their books by a Large Language Model (LLM) at firms such as Reader Reach Marketing, Prime Reading Challenge, & accounts impersonating book clubs such as the Brisbane Geek Social Book Club.
Several of our authors have received AI-generated emails.
What to watch out for 👀
-generic praise for your work from an unknown source/journal/book club
-weird email addresses w/typos
-requests for donation
-promises of "wide audiences" for your book
Read the full post here: tinyurl.com/4v9ptydj
GRATEFUL to the University of Oslo Library @uio.no for supporting us via the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #Books in action.
It takes a community & every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🥳
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Geological terms collide with fragments of political speech, advertising copy, lullaby, and prayer, while the lyric lines encounter meteors, snakes, glaciers, and the domestic sublime!
New #OpenAccess book drop: Frances Richard's THE PHONEMES.
FREE to download: punctumbooks.com/titles/the-p...
New #OpenAccess book drop!
At the beginning of the 21st century, many of our most dependable forms of keeping time are losing their grasp on the real. For new theories & practices of temporality, READ LIFETIMES: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms.
FREE DOWNLOAD here: tinyurl.com/ymjdehej
Mark your calendars! Source Booksellers in Detroit is hosting a reading event with punctum author Geoffrey Jacques in conversation with Alan Wald.
www.eventbrite.com/e/red-lives-...
Need a copy of Red Lives before the event? Find it here: punctumbooks.com/titles/red-l...
NEW #OpenAccess book drop!
Wargame simulations, AI, weaponised drones, territorial enclosure, and extractivist economics—WAR MACHINE presents a series of digitally simulated conflicts over the most ecologically vulnerable areas of the Earth.
FREE to download: punctumbooks.com/titles/war-m...
Congratulations @richardacarter.bsky.social, great to see academic colleagues at York choosing to publish open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social 📖 🔓
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
Launching this busy week with a new book! Released with @punctumbooks.bsky.social, War Machine is a truly experimental effort at generative critique, staging a series of AI battles over ecologically vulnerable terrains, yielding multilayered visual-concrete poems punctumbooks.com/titles/war-m...
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
Launching this busy week with a new book! Released with @punctumbooks.bsky.social, War Machine is a truly experimental effort at generative critique, staging a series of AI battles over ecologically vulnerable terrains, yielding multilayered visual-concrete poems punctumbooks.com/titles/war-m...
Several of our authors have recently received AI-generated marketing emails. We’ve published a post bringing attention to this and some of its implications for scholarly publishing.
Read the full post here: tinyurl.com/4v9ptydj
punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion
