Category Archives: Publishing

Antipode new website

Posted on January 14, 2012 by stuartelden

here

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On referees

Posted on January 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site I offer some thoughts on referees and the refereeing process, building on an editorial by Felix Driver in Journal of Historical Geography.

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Marx as writer

Posted on December 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Roland Boer shares the preface to his forthcoming book  Criticism of Earth: On Marx, Engels and Theology. Very interesting on Marx’s manner of writing, and the contrasts with Engels.

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Levi Bryant – The Democracy of Objects open access pdf

Posted on December 15, 2011 by stuartelden

The html version has been available for a while, and the print book more recently, but now the pdf can be downloaded here. This is in the New Metaphysics series, edited by Bruno Latour and Graham Harman, and published by … Continue reading →

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Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherological Poetics of Being – open access

Posted on December 13, 2011 by stuartelden

I mentioned the recently published collection In Medias Res: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherological Poetics of Being before. Nicholas Dahmann has just informed me that as well as being available in print, it is also available as an open access e-book. thanks Nick.

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University of Sydney and research ‘project management’

Posted on December 7, 2011 by stuartelden

I posted the first link I was sent about the situation at the University of Sydney yesterday, in the long message about email. It is worth a look – a statement by a large number of faculty members about the … Continue reading →

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Keith Thomas on the state of British universities

Posted on December 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Distinguished historian Keith Thomas writes in the London Review of Books. Secondly, we must press for changes to the REF, formerly the RAE. In my experience, this operation, though initially a stimulus, has in the longer run had appalling effects. … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman on Open Access Publishing and Sales

Posted on December 3, 2011 by stuartelden

Some interesting comments here.

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To do list

Posted on December 2, 2011 by stuartelden

In the immortal words of Malcolm Tucker, “I’ve got a to-do list longer than a Leonard Cohen song”… One of the things that has suffered has been this blog. As the last, somewhat grumpy, post indicated, we are moving, and so that has … Continue reading →

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Parrhesia new issue

Posted on November 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Parrhesia issue 12 is now out – Meillassoux on Badiou; Lyotard, Bennington, and others.

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