Pérez-Milans, Miguel;
Menken, Kate;
(2024)
Acceleration, capitalist temporalities and collective challenges in academic publishing [Language Policy].
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
, 2024
(289-290)
pp. 129-134.
10.1515/ijsl-2024-0080.
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Abstract
This article engages with Wolfgang Klein’s (1989. Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik) invitation in Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel to think about the emergence of the knowledge industry and the extent to which it makes it impossible for readers of scientific journals to keep up with overproduction. Taking acceleration as a key economic property that governs contemporary academic capitalism, we explore some inner workings of this industry but also examples of collective (and prefigurative) initiatives that have attempted to undermine such workings in non-academic settings, in order to reflect more specifically on the possible implications for academic publishing. In so doing, we identify some relevant features as to how capitalist temporalities organise scientific editorial work, and provide a few focal points of consideration with the hope of contributing to wider conversations on how to begin (re)imagining alternative ways of doing academic publishing.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Acceleration, capitalist temporalities and collective challenges in academic publishing [Language Policy] |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1515/ijsl-2024-0080 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2024-0080 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en. |
Keywords: | Knowledge industry; academic capitalism; academic publishing; temporality; collective pre-figuration |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201163 |
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