Among the Jasmine Trees… and Journal writing

It’s like a bad song stuck in my head… hours later, I still have that book title stuck in my head, and I just chuckled out loud thinking about it. It just sounds so ethereal and pleasant, and I picture Harman getting through tons of pages of Johnston’s daunting book on revolutionary change–which is many things, but ethereal in tone, it’s not—and suddenly embarking on tree-filled paths, the smell of sweet spices in the air.

Speaking of Johnston, again, it’s notable that I really prefer online publishing right now. As long as I’m not pushed by comments from peers at my university, I really don’t see why i’d publish offline (and I say this as a journal editor, but let’s hope for a workable future with an online component for radical philosophers in and around the RPA). Last week, I put together an article on Catherine Malabou, which was but a day or two between reading her most recent work and finishing it. Then I pop it over to a leading journal, and then there’s a lagtime of about 6-9 months to get it set for publication, and who knows when that will come, and it will be a year and a half from now that I’ll have the prints for a piece that I will not even remember writing since from conception to completion it didn’t linger with me for that long. But I assume the IJZS article will be published when they can get it together online, which is a lot shorter time period, and a lot closer to the a similar process that led to that article.

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  1. I feel the same way as you and Graham when it comes to online publishing. The first two volumes of Analecta Hermeneutica are mostly filled with the backlog of articles from the past few years (back when it was supposed to be a book series or paper journal and not an open-access journal). I’m excited for the next volume which will be newer stuff since we’ll be able to continue working very fast, the way the web is supposed to be.

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