This seminar will engage with the scholarly paradigm of the post-digital with respect to twenty-first century publishing practices and print cultures, responding to Simone Murray’s (2015) exhortation to research how print and digital intermingle in the contemporary publishing field beyond the initial disruption of computerization and digitization. The term ‘post-digital’, used by Florian Cramer (2014) to describe ‘the messy state of media, arts and design after their digitisation’, may be applied to the media ecology within which texts now circulate. What then, are the material realities of writing, producing, and reading books today? In this seminar, we will approach post-digital print culture via theoretical interventions made by scholars of book history and publishing studies, and investigate transformations in practices of authorship, publication, circulation and reading through examples and case studies. NOTE: This is a block seminar that will take place from Tuesday, 26.5.2026 to Friday, 29.05.2026. Readings, to be completed beforehand, will be uploaded to a Learnweb folder.

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