https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/pop/activity/ Activity feed for Post Office Press. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 be0431e1db84e251f9eaf567f00f5af4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1711356/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 06:23:26 +0000 0 a0d4c8170384c77ab51bf6c31de0077c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611747/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:34:32 +0000 The ‘predatory publishing’ label is often linked to open access in order to discredit it, evoking as this concept does both vanity and self-publishing. Today, however, more and more critical attention is being paid to how this label has been and is still being constructed. On the one hand, the rise of unscrupulous OA publishers who charge aut…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf7282d5a3a7ad53a467cb410bafc228 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611746/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:26:12 +0000 In the 1990s, the Internet offered a horizon from which to imagine what society could become, promising autonomy and self-organization next to redistribution of wealth and collectivized means of production. While the former was in line with the dominant ideology of freedom, the latter ran contrary to the expanding enclosures in capitalist…[Read more]

]]> 0 2544f131395d87a4a0bbc827afc3b387 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611745/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:19:30 +0000 That Elsevier/RELX group has now rebranded itself as a “global provider of information and analytics,” seems indicative of the way academic publishing is increasingly moving into the highly pro table data analytics market. Here the linking of journals and scholarly social networks to the data underlying them through article level metrics, cit…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb6035b68581ec2eece9c5e7f0c7c369 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611744/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:11:33 +0000 The “transfer of the responsibility of paying for publication to the individual author (or the author’s funding agency or institution)” that is brought about by gold author-pays open access is, as Gary Hall notes in Pirate Philosophy, a “typical neoliberal move.” By placing researchers in a position where they have to compete for the inevitabl…[Read more]

]]> 0 82923b44dec6c480da5d285c472dc1f1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611743/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:59:46 +0000 The Geopolitics of Open addresses issues of difference, ideology and infrastructure across the stratified geographies of open access publishing. It examines the construction of power and inequality in our scholarly practices and discourses around the open. How can we contextualise open access, as a contingent and politically-laden concept, within…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3027096082180da92d9bf5173c745a8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611742/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:38:09 +0000 Several projects within the Radical Open Access Collective (including Mattering Press, Goldsmiths Press, the PPJ, and Capacious) frame the work they do around open access publishing as a form of care. Here publishing is understood as a complex, multi-agential, relational practice. In various ways, these projects are concerned with considering how…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc5ed19f27ff9d877f7b43f997a8a1ae https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611739/ Mon, 25 Jun 2018 21:40:09 +0000 This pamphlet explores ways in which to engage scholars to further elaborate the poethics of their scholarship. Following Joan Retallack, who has written extensively about the responsibility that comes with formulating and performing a poetics, which she has captured in her concept of poethics (with an added h), this pamphlet examines what…[Read more]

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