Category Archives: Publishing

Cambridge discussion audio

The audio recording of the discussion on 16 February 2012 with Adam Ramadan is now available. Many thanks to Adam for asking the questions and John Mason and the Cambridge University Geographical Society for inviting me and organising the event. Apart from a … Continue reading →

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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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