np:

Dedicated to the formation of the social and economic combinations of new presses, the nonprofit np: (np-press.org) creates new institutionally-based publishing units. It questions how innovation comes about in scholarly publishing, given the speed of technological change and the quickly modified forms by which knowledge is arrived at and sustained. Many publishers continue to over-rely on outmoded communication technologies and assumptions about what content is and how it is generated. np: is designed specifically to circumvent the problematic nature of publication as we know it, including not simply the way current practices shape scholarship but also the tendency toward reproducing inequality and exclusion.

As part of its program, np: publishes, hosts, and supports work that interrogates the university system and its sedimented histories, from land acquisition to student debt. np:’s standpoint is decisively outside the university press framework and so activates new perspectives on academic labor, knowledge production, and modes of resistance.