REBEKKA KIESEWETTER
Articles, essays, & books
Ongoing
COMBINATORIAL BOOKS: GATHERING FLOWERS book series
With Janneke Adema, Simon Bowie, & Gary Hall
Open Humanities Press
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Gabriela Méndez Cota et al. (2023).
Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with the Chernobyl Herbarium.
Open Humanities Press, -
Radical Open Access Collective (eds.) (2025). Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University.
Post Office Press & Open Humanities Press.
Peer-reviewed
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Kiesewetter, R. (2026), Doing Openness Otherwise: Democratization and OA Publishing in the HSS. Journal of Electronic Publishing 29(1). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7944
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Kiesewetter, R. (2024) ‘Experiments towards Editing Otherwise’, Culture Machine Vol. 23. https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/kiesewetter-experiments-toward-editing-otherwise/
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Kiesewetter, R., (2024) 'Reframing the "International" in UK International Scholarship: Perspectives on Diversity and Equity beyond English as Lingua Franca and Multilingualism', Journal for Electronic Publishing 27(1). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5383
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Kiesewetter, R. (2020). Undoing Scholarship: Towards an Activist Genealogy of the OA Movement. Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies 23 (2): 113–30. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2020.2.001.KIES.
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Kiesewetter, R. (2020). A New Genealogy for Critical OA Publishing: Towards a Politics of Intersectional Transnationality. Journal of International Women’s Studies 21 (7): 61–76. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss7/6.
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Kiesewetter, R. (2020). Publishables. Diseña 16.
2026
Kiesewetter, R. (2026), Doing Openness Otherwise: Democratization and OA Publishing in the HSS. Journal of Electronic Publishing 29(1). https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7944
Kiesewetter, R. (2026). Designing and Preserving 'Database as Book'. OBF. https://copim.pub/designing-and-preserving-database-as-book-and-lively-community-archive/
2025
Kiesewetter, R. (2025), Infrastructuring Books Together. OBF. https://copim.pub/infrastructuring-books-together-notes-from-the-collective-infrastructures-for-publishing-event/
Experimental Publishing Group (2025). Instituting 'Database as Book and Lively Community Archive'. OBF. https://copim.pub/instituting-database-as-book-and-lively-community-archive/
Radical Open Access Collective (eds.) (2025). Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University. Post Office Press & Open Humanities Press.
Radical Open Access Collective Co-Convenors (2025). The Non-Location of the University. In Radical Open Access Collective (eds.) (2025). Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University (pp. 1 - 6 ). Post Office Press & Open Humanities Press.
Kiesewetter, R. (2025). Reflections on Radical OA III Conference. ROAC. https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/reflections-on-radical-open-access-iii-from-openness-to-social-justice-activism/
Kiesewetter, R. (2025). The (Im)Possibility of Non-Extractive Collaboration. OBF. https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/pilot-project-documentation-servpub4-non-extractive-collab/release/2?readingCollection=ace58019
Kiesewetter, R. (2025). Exploring the Database Side of the ‘Database as Book’ pilot project. OBF. https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/database-as-book-on-platform-for-experimental-ethnography/release/1?readingCollection=ace58019
Kiesewetter, R. (2025). More than a Moment: The Practice of Getting Together. OBF. https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/database-as-book-on-gathering/release/1?readingCollection=ace58019
2024
Kiesewetter, R. (2024) ‘Guest Editorial Notes (after Progress?)’, Culture Machine Vol. 23. https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/rebekka-kiesewetter-guest-editorial-notes/
Kiesewetter, R. (2024) ‘Experiments towards Editing Otherwise’, Culture Machine Vol. 23. https://culturemachine.net/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/kiesewetter-experiments-toward-editing-otherwise/
Publishing After Progress. Guest-Editorship of Culture Machine peer reviewed open access jounal vol. 23, special issue 'Publishing after Progress'
Kiesewetter, R., (2024) 'Reframing the "International" in UK International Scholarship: Perspectives on Diversity and Equity beyond English as Lingua Franca and Multilingualism', Journal for Electronic Publishing 27(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.5383
Kiesewetter, R. & Bowie, S. (2024). Documenting ‘Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’. https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/pilot-project-documentation-servpub2/release/1?readingCollection=ace58019
2023
THE COMMUNITY FORMING POTENTIAL OF CARTONERA PUBLISHING
Book review. Cultural Studies. DOI:10.1080/09502386.2023.2244507
PRESERVING COMBINATORIAL BOOKS
COPIM Experimental Publishing work package blog
OPEN SOURCING RE-USE
With Janneke Adema & Simon Bowie
COPIM Experimental Publishing work package blog
2022
EXPERIMENTAL BOOK PUBLISHING: REINVENTING EDITORIAL WORKFLOWS AND ENGAGING COMMUNITIES (article)
With Janneke Adema
Commonplace, Series 2.2. Community-led Editorial Management.
A WORKFLOW FOR COMBINATORIAL BOOKS (blog post/series)
With Janneke Adema, Simon Bowie, & Gary Hall
COPIM Experimental Publishing work package blog
IMPLEMENTING A WORKFLOW FOR COMBINATORIAL BOOKS (blog post/series)
With Simon Bowie & Gary Hall
COPIM Experimental Publishing work package blog
A COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES (blog post/series)
COPIM Experimental Publishing work package blog
RE-USE AND/AS RE-WRITING (blog post/series)
With Janneke Adema
COPIM Experimental Publishing work package blog
COMBINATORIAL BOOKS PILOT CASE: INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT DOCUMENTATION (blog post/series)
With Janneke Adema
COPIM Experimental Publishing work package blog
CURATORIAL DESIGN: A PLACE BETWEEN (book)
With Dubravka Sekulic & Wilried Kuehn (co-eds.) (2019).
2021
DATA BOOKS & DATA BODIES: PERFORMING ARCHIVAL DATA DIFFERENTLY (blog post)
With Julien McHardy, Kat Jungnickel, & Ellen Fowles
COPIM WP6 blog
TENTATIVE REWRITING FLORILEGIUM (experimental book)
With diverse authors
2020
A NEW GENEALOGY FOR CRITICAL OA PUBLISHING. TOWARDS A POLITICS OF INTERSECTIONAL TRANSNATIONALITY (journal article)
Journal of International Women’s Studies, Volume 21, Issue 4
UNDOING SCHOLARSHIP (journal article)
Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 113-129.
PUBLISHABLES (journal article)
Diseña 16 (2020)
2019
FRIEND/SHIPS (reader)
With Body of Us, continent., dpr-barcelona (2019).
ŠIBENIK ALTERNATING CURRENTS: PUBLISHING ACTS II (book)
With Ana Dana Beroš & Emil Jurcan (DAI-SAI) (co-editors)
Barcelona: dpr-barcelona.
INTRODUCTION: PUBLISHING AS A CRITICAL DEVICE (book chapter)
In Rebekka Kiesewetter, Ana Dana Beroš & Emil Jurcan (DAI-SAI) (2019): Šibenik Alternating Currents. Publishing Acts II. Barcelona: dpr-barcelona
RELAY CONVERSATION The Reading Room #27 & #28 – Post-Digital Publishing (article)
Conversation with Sissel Marie Tonn (SMT), Jonathan Reus (JR), Flora Reznik (FR), Florian Cramer (FC), Rebekka Kiesewetter (RK), Joana Chicau (JC) and Alessandro Ludovico (AL).
2018
CURATORIAL AFTERWORD (essay)
For: "Body of Us" website ("Body of Us" is the Swiss contribution for London Design Biennial 2018 on commission by Pro Helvetia; With: common-interest, continent., dinamo, Kaja Kusztra, Vanessa Lorenzo, Raphaelle Mueller, Raeuber&Stehler)
FROM EXCLUSION TO AUTONOMY: PUBLISHING AS A SPATIALIZING ACT (essay)
For: Amateur Cities
2017
RELEASE! (essay)
For: Studio NOCK Catalogue
About the choreographies and gestures of a publication's release.
PUBLISHING AS CRITICAL (SPATIALIZING) PRACTICE (book chapter)
in: Ana Dana Beroš, Rebekka Kiesewetter and Emil Jurcan (2017). Publishing Acts. Pula Documents. Pula: DAI-SAI/Praksa Coop, pp. 5
PUBLIZIEREN ALS GESTALTERISCHE PRAXIS. EIN FESTIVAL ALS PUBLIKATION. EINE PUBLIKATION ALS FESTIVAL (essay)
For: Sedici Verlag & HyperWerk Institute FHNW HGK Basel
GEDANKEN ZU EINER DARCHITEKTUR (essay)
For: Sedici Verlag & HyperWerk Institute FHNW HGK Basel
TOWARDS A WHATEVER ARCHITECTURE (book review)
For: http://www.zeroundicipiu.it/2017/05/31/towards-a-whatever-architecture/
MONS ON MY MIND (book chapter)
For Constructlab (Eds.) 2017. Livre Invisible; ZK/U Press: Berlin.
On kinship and the schools of tomorrow.
2016
TO WHOMEVER IT MAY CONCERN (essay)
For: http://www.zeroundicipiu.it/2016/11/10/to-whomever-it-may-concern/
FOREWORD (book chapter)
For: Elena Chiavi, Matilde Girão, Pablo Garrido i Arnaiz, Francisco Moura Veiga, Francisco Ramos Ordóñez and Rubén Valdez (Ed.) (2016). CARTHA. On Relations in Architecture. Zurich: Park Books.
For: Aformal Academy