[p2p-research] Fwd: Information from Communalism: August 2009

[Ryan Lanham]

Michel,

I note your sending out a communication copied below on the redo of the
journal Communalism.  Neat idea for a journal...if it was 20 years ago.

I have spent considerable time thinking lately about journals--academic
journals.  I have come to the considered rather than flippant conclusion
that they are absurd.  No one wins.  So the serious question must be
called...again and again if necessary, why are we making these things!?!

I understand they offer a forum for a particular type of writing.  But they
are resource wasteful, first, and of doubtful utility second, all things
considered.  Really they exist to advance a career agenda for academics that
is, by most I talk with, also absurd.  So if this is patently absurd for
most who consider it in the whole, why continue?

I propose the Foundation for P2P Alternatives consider putting on conference
sometime called, "Is Peer Review a Peer Process?"  Maybe this would fit into
one of the buckets you and Athina have on the stove.  I would actually opt
for the more tendenious title of "Why isn't Peer Review a Peer Process?"

Ryan
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> From: Eirik Eiglad <editor at communalism.net>
> Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM
> Subject: Information from Communalism: August 2009
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> *Information from Communalism*
> International Journal for a Rational Society
> August 18th, 2009
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> Update August 2009:
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> *Communalism* announce:
> New journal will be presented in December
>
> As many of you have noticed already, we are planning a major update of this
> journal. Now we are proud to announce what these changes will come in
> December this year.
>
> Social ecology needs an international journal that is relevant to activists
> and sympathizers, and we seek to provide this. From this December, we will
> start publishing 3 issues per year of the journal. Each issue will consist
> of several theoretical essays as well as shorter political articles, and we
> hope it can be used to support your own organizational efforts. In addition
> to start producing a printed journal, *Communalism* will also start a
> publishing house for books and pamphlets, and we will make a new and more
> accessible website. This will all be an English-language project, directed
> towards an international audience.
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