Category Archives: Publishing

Para-Academic Publishing

Interesting event in New York in April (via The Whim)

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Three links to posts on publishing

John Protevi reflects on the story that the University of Louisiana may lay claim to a part share of the royalties earned by members of faculty there. I particularly like this tangled metaphor from the Professor of English: “It’s sort … Continue reading

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Foucault on Truth, Knowledge and Publishing

This will to truth, like other systems of exclusion, relies on institutional support: it is both reinforced and accompanied by whole strata of practices such as pedagogy, of course, such as the book-system, publishing, libraries, such as the learned societies … Continue reading

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Political Concepts

Political Concepts – new online resource/journal. This project appears to be linked to the Tel Aviv University project Mafte’akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought that has some English entries, and some Hebrew translations. (The latter was the group that translated … Continue reading

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Ian Bogost on Making Books and Writing Books

Back when his book The Textual Life of Airports was published in December, Christopher Schaberg reported what most authors do: seeing his book for the first time. “What a weird feeling,” Chris wrote. “It resembles an object from outer space. … Continue reading

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Elsevier launches ‘a new jounal’ – copyeditors required

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Thrift on refereeing in crisis

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Thanks to Sam Kinsey for posting this in comments – I’ve reposted so it is more widely seen.

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On peer review

A post on the difficulty of getting reports, here; and a post on how it’s not really a huge amount of work, with interesting comments, here. Another post raises the issue of who is asked to referee. And finally, a proposal … Continue reading

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The History of Cartography – now free online

The University of Chicago Press have made volume 1 and the three books of volume 2 of the magisterial History of Cartography freely available online. The homepage for the project as a whole is here.

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The Continuum Companion to Leibniz reviewed

The Continuum Companion to Leibniz is reviewed at NDPR – the whole review is open access, so will only quote a couple of telling lines: On the whole, the volume is of exceptional quality. Each and every article represents an … Continue reading

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