[Air-L] DIY Revolution manifesto for open-access publishing

[Işık Barış Fidaner]

footnotes:

* International Journal of Žižek Studies - http://zizekstudies.org

** IJŽS Vol 7.4 - http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/issue/current


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Işık Barış Fidaner <fidaner at gmail.com>wrote:

> IJŽS publish "DIY Revolution" manifesto for open-access publishing in the
> humanities
>
> Excerpt:
> *"We can allow for and release Copernican revolution. That is, rather than
> Ptolemizing print technology and culture by retrofitting existing models
> and structures so that the previous paradigm continues to operate, we can
> work to reconfigure the entire system. Instead of twisting, contorting, and
> restricting the Internet so that it operates as some kind of digital
> emulation of the printing press, we can recognize the truly revolutionary
> potential of this technological innovation—direct peer-to-peer distribution
> and access to information that operates without the established and
> increasingly expensive intermediaries and gatekeepers. Understood in this
> fashion, open access publishing can be positioned as a kind of
> revolutionary transformation. It not only reconfigures the basic structure
> of scholarly communication but deposes powerful authority figures and puts
> everything on the line. This is obviously an enticing opportunity but there
> are several challenges that go along with it."*
>
> http://gunkelweb.com/articles/Gunkel_IJZS_DIY.pdf
>
> In his facebook post containing a PDF link to this manifesto, David Gunkel
> (niu.edu) described it as "a position paper concerning our experience at
> IJZS and Zizek Studies" referring to his continued collaboration with Paul
> Taylor (leeds.ac.uk) since 2007 in the peer-reviewed journal IJŽS and the
> associated "Zizek Studies" discussion group on facebook with presently ~10k
> members. He was sharing this document in anticipation of next week's Open
> Access panel at the MLA (mla.org) convention in Chicago.
>
> A few days prior to this manifesto, Vol 7.4 of IJŽS had been published and
> announced**. Among the articles included in this volume is a
> Žižekian-Lacanian analysis of the 2007 financial crisis, titled
> "Capitalism's traumatic encounter with lack".
>
>