Planned Obsolescence published in CommentPress
Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Pomona College has posted her most recent book, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology and the Future of the Academy online as a CommentPress text, allowing readers to publish comments and engage in dialogue with the author. Fitzpatrick’s book is an especially fitting text to open up to this kind of public exchange because, among other things, it offers a meta-analysis of the state of contemporary academic publishing including questions of authorship, peer review, electronic publication and shifting models of scholarship. The book is also slated for conventional publication through NYU Press in 2010, but in the mean time you can access the full text of the project and participate in the emerging discussion. Through her work with the Institute for the Future of the Book and the online journal and scholarly network MediaCommons, Fitzpatrick has been a central figure in rethinking publishing and its place in the academy for many years, and not just as an outside observer/commentator but as someone who models her own work on the very ideals she espouses and, perhaps most importantly, building an online architecture to encourage others to do the same.
Posted by sanderson in blog on Oct 4th, 2009
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Steve Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Director of the Ph.D. program in Media Arts & Practice in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He co-Edits the interdisciplinary online journal Vectors and is the creator of the fair use advocacy site Critical Commons. As a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of media, culture and technology, his research interests include historiography, the theory and history of emerging technologies, documentary and experimental film and video, and interactive media design.
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