The new issue of ephemera is out. It’s a webjournal affiliated with a unit in the management program at Leicester University. I don’t understand that, though I do have cynical intuitions about why a business school would care about these matters, intuitions which I’d like to expand into analyses at some point in a way paralleling recent discussion at the Archive, Going Somewhere, Post-Hegemonic Musings, and elsewhere about cultural studies. For the record, though, I don’t take those conversations to be an attack necessarily on people employed in the enterprises under discussion (we all reproduce the capital relation to some degree), but more a call for some sophrosyne. Others may disagree. Anyway, new ephemera out. Co-edited by a friend, and I’ve got a hand in three pieces therein (a bit of nepotism perhaps, one can never be sure, but I don’t mind - I’m still proud to be involved in those pieces.) Comments of course welcome.
November 25, 2005
… is ephemera?
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It’s interesting you should mention this, because I received a list digest this morning with news that ephemera is launching a book imprint, mayflybooks, which is planning to bring books out for free on pdf under “Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License”. Whatever that is.
Comment by mark — November 26, 2005 @ 3:53 am
hi Mark,
Thanks for sending that. It’s www.mayflybooks.org. Looks interesting. There’s a cool book imprint from Spain called Traficantes de Suenos (there should be a ~ over the ‘n’) that this seems similar to. I look forward to seeing what comes of this.
take care,
Nate
Comment by Nate — November 26, 2005 @ 4:30 pm