Category Archives: Publishing

Fifteen years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis

My PhD thesis was entitled ‘Mapping the Present: Space and History in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault’ and it was submitted in December 1998 (I’m pretty sure it was on the 18th). It was examined … Continue reading

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Big Data and Society – new open access journal being launched

ANTHEM has the news of a new open access journal edited by Evelyn Ruppert – Big Data and Society.

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Three very interesting pieces on changes (and challenges) to publishing today

Three very interesting pieces on changes to academic publishing today. The first looks at the need for University Presses to adapt to a changing publishing landscape; the second at the costs of producing an open-access monograph – a good reason to use the language … Continue reading

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Henryk Grossman – The Change in the Original Plan for Marx’s Capital and Its Causes

Very interesting article translated in the latest Historical Materialism – Henryk Grossman, “The Change in the Original Plan for Marx’s Capital and Its Causes” (requires subscription).

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Architecture in the Anthropocene – open access book

    Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy, edited by Etienne Turpin – open access from Open Humanities Press.  

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Justin E.H. Smith on his plans for the next ten years of research

I’ve mentioned Justin E.H. Smith on this blog before, mainly in relation to his excellent book on Leibniz, Divine Machines. In this post he talks about his various future book projects, including several under contract, and some translations. Will be of interest … Continue reading

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9 Publishing Basics for Anyone Submitting to a Scholarly Journal

At Sage Connection, some useful advice on journal publishing. Well worth a read – even experienced people miss some of these things. Here’s one answer: 8.       What should a person submitting an article for consideration NEVER do? I think you … Continue reading

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Early Modern Literary Geographies – new book series with Oxford University Press

Early Modern Literary Geographies is a new book series with Oxford University Press, under the editorship of Julie Sanders and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. I’m delighted to be part of their advisory board. Here’s the series description: Influenced by the work of cultural … Continue reading

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Literary Geographies – new open-access e-journal

A call for papers for the first issue of Literary Geographies – and check out the blog of the same name which has really useful bibliographies of existing work in this area. Literary Geographies is an interdisciplinary open-access e-journal that provides a … Continue reading

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ACME theme issue on ‘Impact’ and ‘Enforced Disappearances’

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies Vol 13 No 1 has now been published, and includes a theme section on the impact agenda in UK higher education; as well as another theme section on enforced disappearances. As ever, all … Continue reading

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