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@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".