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Elsevier buy Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
News yesterday that Elsevier had bought Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has caused a lot of controversy. SSRN is used to share work in progress, Elsevier is a controversial publisher with expensive subscriptions. The Duck of Minerva has one take on … Continue reading
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Royalties
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Conversation with a (smart) undergraduate student yesterday, about the amount of money academics make from book sales. I asked him how much he thought an academic got in royalties for a £20 book. ‘About £9?’ It’s…
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Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ – a few thoughts
As I’ve previously mentioned, Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the ‘Enemies of All Mankind’ is now out with Routledge. Here’s the backcover description: The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration … Continue reading
Books received 2 – Shakespeare and Heidegger
Two (poor quality) second-hand Shakespeare books and the last of the Oxford sale books I’d ordered, plus the first volume of Heidegger’s lectures from the Gesamtausgabe.
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Books received 1 – review work for Verso
A number of recent and not-so-recent books from Verso after I wrote a report for them.
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Graham Harman, Dante’s Broken Hammer
Graham Harman, Dante’s Broken Hammer, forthcoming in October 2016 from Repeater Books. His Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory recently appeared with Polity. In this book the founder of object-oriented philosophy transforms one of the classic poets of the Western canon, Dante … Continue reading
Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 15 – revision and resubmission of the manuscript, and table of contents
While I had made some changes to the manuscript after submission, and again after receiving the reports, on Sunday evening I finished four long days of thoroughly revising the text and resubmitted it to the publisher. Just as I was beginning … Continue reading
Books received – Oxford Shakespeare volumes
A pile of volumes in the Oxford Shakespeare series -there was a sale on, so I picked up a number of ones I didn’t already have that will inform work over the next few months.
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LA Review of Books section on Althusser – includes new translation of Althusser on Rousseau
The LA Review of Books has a theme section on Althusser – which includes a new translation of a lecture on Rousseau from 1972, and six essays including ones by Nina Power, Jason Barker and Richard Seymour. The whole Rousseau … Continue reading
