Making Academic Publishing More Public

This volume seeks to understand the limits of disciplinary structures in the context of broader concerns about the future of academic practice. My chapter contributes to this project from the point of view of someone with questions about academic publishing practices, the role of form, and circulation in the production of knowledge, in a manner that interacts with those questions being asked here about discipline: How do the dominant media and designed characteristics associated with academic publishing, such as written journal articles and monographs employing specific kinds of expert languages, contribute to, and/or limit, the capacity of the contemporary humanities to “transverse disciplines” and widen its substantive impact? What kinds of expertise, methods, and collaborative configurations could enact a reimagination of contexts for humanities practice? How do discipline and medium interact within current confines of humanities standards and norms? How could they interact in the future? In this chapter, these questions are approached via the example of Urban Pamphleteer, a publication that I co-edit in collaboration with the University College London Urban Laboratory.

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