Category Archives: alt-publishing

‘Complicity’ essay for Assembly catalogue 2000

23/04/2012 – 10:40 pm

Click on the pages to enlarge and read.

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New Cross Review of Books

08/03/2012 – 4:52 pm

About NXRB Book Reviews from the Big Crabapple that is NX, London. This is a haphazard collection of reviews old and new. Of course we are not competing with any of the other fine book review rags out there from other towns like New York or London, it’s just that… We will accept contributions where they [...]

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Seagull School of Publishing

11/02/2012 – 5:12 pm
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Marx Writing Notes

16/01/2012 – 7:41 pm

Two quotes from Theories of Surplus Value Vol 1. ‘a writer is a productive laborer not insofar as he produces ideas, but insofar as he enriches the book-seller who publishes his work, or insofar as he is a wage-labourer of a capitalist entrepreneur’

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Academic Publishing, Libraries, and What Not

16/01/2012 – 11:40 am

I’ll collect various things to come back to regarding alt-publishing here: First up, a thesis that sets the scene (from Canada, but international in scope) – by Heather Morrison That thesis was the one linked to in the previous post about big publisher profits in anticipation of the CCS workshop on questions of academic publishing mid [...]

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Cut Flesh from the Bone – big publishing profits

16/01/2012 – 10:06 am

This article is one in an issue becoming quite the popular. Having published a commissioned (unpaid) article with Elsevier – it was called ‘Jungle Studies’, and after proofreading they replaced the phrase ‘For fuck’s sake’ with ‘For God’s sake’ – I know, there are several levels of gah! – I am keen to point out that [...]

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Nyx, a Noctournal

29/10/2011 – 12:35 am

. A horrifically good and brand new issue of the CCS postgrad noctournal publication Nyx was launched tonight in New Cross/Deptford, and a very fine thing it is too. You will soon be able to purchase the new issue from the website. Do be quick! NOW HERE.

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