The current publication culture in the humanities offers little space for research projects that emerge in groups and collectives – let alone for those that are pursued on the side, stored and forgotten in our digital folders, in the cache. How and where, for example, is there room for all the text fragments, images, films, and audio files that are often and easily exchanged but are not readily handled by the usual scholarly formats? Where to put the connections and links held in our caches that do not adhere to subject boundaries, journal guidelines, or research trends?

The cache series is a publication tool for research groups. It enables them to work together on a topic, to deal with content creatively, and to publish apart from the usual formats. cache is both a collective essay and a collection of materials and appears in hybrid form: as a printed book and as a website (open access), where additional content can be found.