Category Archives: Publishing

The Birth of Territory – copy-editing done

Posted on November 18, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve just finished checking through all the queries with the copy-editing of the manuscript of The Birth of Territory. This must have been quite a job, given the length of the manuscript and the number of foreign words and references. … Continue reading →

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Douglas Armato, director of University of Minnesota Press on publishing

Posted on November 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting comments from Douglas Armato, director of University of Minnesota Press, on academic publishing. Here’s a brief excerpt: University presses will survive and continue to evolve for this reason as well —that while new modes of scholarship continue to forecast … Continue reading →

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Tips on Publishing

Posted on November 6, 2012 by stuartelden

These tips at the Sociological Imagination might appear common sense, but are well worth a look – as an editor I am continually amazed at how often these are not followed… (via David Beer).

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Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses

Posted on October 24, 2012 by stuartelden

New journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses edited by a politics, IR, geography and sociology team. Resilience is a fully peer-reviewed journal that creates a platform for dialogue about the processes, spaces, policies, practices and subjectivities through which resilience … Continue reading →

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A long day

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Yesterday was a long and varied day, in which I dealt with aspects of just about every part of my roles at Durham and beyond. I was in before 8am, dealing with some teaching stuff, and then giving a two-hour … Continue reading →

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Ill-informed critique of Verso

Posted on October 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The last post reminded me of this ill-informed critique of Verso, particularly in terms of its response to the mass-sharing of its books on download sites. Many of the books mentioned, and certainly many of the books in Verso’s catalogue, … Continue reading →

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David Campbell on File Sharing

Posted on October 20, 2012 by stuartelden

David Campbell has a good discussion of file-sharing of digital media at his blog, based on the Copy Culture in the US and Germany study. Many discussions of these issues proceed in terms of assumptions and generalisations that often have … Continue reading →

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Book publishing, uploading pdfs, and print on demand

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has some good thoughts on book publishing here – sparked by someone uploading his book Tool Being. I agree with Graham on this, although I don’t have his experience of publishing a book in simultaneous print and free … Continue reading →

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New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies

Posted on October 16, 2012 by stuartelden

New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies, by Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin is now available, open access, online. Print and pdf versions to follow. The first half of the book has interviews with Rosi Bradotti, Quentin Meillassoux, Karen Barad and … Continue reading →

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A Map of the World Based on Book Publishing

Posted on October 10, 2012 by stuartelden

In The Atlantic Wire.

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