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February 26, 2007

A new edition of Borderlands. Still perusing, but these look interesting: Deborah Pike’s “Sharon’s Wall and the Dialectics of Inside/Outside”; Nirmal Trivedi’s “Biopolitical Convergences”; James Ross’s “The Promise of Promise”. And, of course, Ayşe Deniz Temiz - who most will already know as Pomegranade in these parts - reviewing Ali Behdad’s A Forgetful Nation.

And I hear terrible news of Contretemps‘ demise. Awful.

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3 Comments »

  1. What happened to Contretemps?

    Matt [February 26, 2007 @ 12:30 pm]

  2. It demised (though I guess that’s not a word). Half-way through producing the next edition, which I gather was on ’sedition’. This being a recently introduced law in AU, and likely pertinent elsewhere, it seems a shame to not have that discussion.

    But more broadly, it’s a shame that online, open access journals on ‘continental philosophy’ (or however one wants to describe it) don’t garner the support, funding and status of closed access ones which are read by far less people and are, with a few notable exceptions, less interesting. The triumph of ‘performance indicators’ perhaps?

    s0metim3s [February 27, 2007 @ 9:39 am]

  3. Demised is a great word.

    Agreed about online journals. It’s frustrating and stupid, as there’s no good reason within the discourses of universities. I mean, online journals could serve just as well as paper journals as inputs to what the economy of academia wants, and would probably be just as easily trackable for the performance indicators (how many downloads, what locations, etc). If articles in an online thing counted as similarly weighted with paper ones that’d be a step toward the legitimacy of e-journals, as well as relieving some of the crunch on people who need to publish for their jobs. (Someone motivated should start petition drives and get big places to agree to count online journals with similar cred as paper ones Duke’s Lit Dept could start, they’re supposed to be lefty.)

    Nate [March 2, 2007 @ 3:18 am]

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