Category Archives: Publishing

‘Getting Published’ Masterclass – British Academy sponsored workshop at Warwick, 26 June 2014

Posted on June 16, 2014 by stuartelden

‘Getting Published’ Masterclass – Warwick 26 June 2014 Sponsored by the British Academy, The ‘Getting Published’ Masterclass is an event is aimed at providing useful, practical, information to PhD students and early career researchers on how to get their work published. The … Continue reading →

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Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke

Posted on June 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – Rowman International  Series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke This series publishes studies that originate in a range of different fields that are nonetheless linked through their common foundation: a belief that the macro-scale of geopolitics … Continue reading →

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The work of editing – adding references to translations II

Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartelden

In a previous post I said a bit about one of the tasks of editing a translation. I’ve now completed the Heidegger references I discussed in that previous post. The references to Hegel, Jaspers, Heraclitus, Homer, Lukács and Lenin took relatively … Continue reading →

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Editors vs Publishers – The Times Higher story on Prometheus and Taylor & Francis

Posted on June 7, 2014 by stuartelden

The Times Higher has an interesting and worrying piece about the clash between the editors of a journal and their publisher Taylor & Francis. Here’s the opening few lines: A journal’s editorial board has been left on the brink of resignation after … Continue reading →

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The work of editing – adding references to translations

Posted on June 6, 2014 by stuartelden

Over the past few weeks, around other things, I’ve been editing a translation of a book for a new press. I’ll post details of the book when the website is available. A lot of the work has been checking the … Continue reading →

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on finishing a book

Posted on June 1, 2014 by stuartelden

A nice piece on the process of finishing a book – in this case, Stories of Stone for University of Minnesota Press – which discusses funding, collaboration and the process of writing.

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Rob Kitchin’s forthcoming The Data Revolution has a website, with bibliography

Posted on May 26, 2014 by stuartelden

Rob Kitchin’s book The Data Revolution is forthcoming later this year from Sage. Traditionally, data has been a scarce commodity which, given its value, has been either jealously guarded or expensively traded.  In recent years, technological developments and political lobbying have turned … Continue reading →

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Bradley Garrett receives conditional discharge – ‘a qualified victory for academic freedom’

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Bradley Garrett, whose work I’ve praised on this site before, was yesterday given a ‘conditional discharge’ in relation to charges of ‘conspiring to commit criminal damage’. I exchanged some emails with Brad yesterday so knew about it, but there were … Continue reading →

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Herbert Marcuse, Collected Papers – sixth and final volume published

Posted on May 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Earlier this year, the sixth and final volume of Herbert Marcuse’s Collected Papers was published. The series was begun back in 1998, and they were edited by Douglas Kellner, joined by Clayton Pierce for the final two volumes. They are expensive – … Continue reading →

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Thomas Meyer on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Posted on May 20, 2014 by stuartelden

This is one of the better pieces I’ve read recently on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’. In particular, it is good on how they fit within the structure of Heidegger’s thought as a whole, and especially his plans for posthumous publication. As … Continue reading →

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