The future of academic publishing, as well as its ability to create and sustain publics, rests upon its willingness to take up the protection, maximum use, and enjoyment of “personal energy under personal control. This will also mean understanding that the other critical term here, in addition to freedom, is responsibility. Someone, or some distributive collectives of someones, which might also form a nomadic para-institution, or “outstitution,” needs to take responsibility for securing this freedom for the greatest number of persons possible who want to participate in intellectual-cultural life. A publisher is a person, or a group, or a multiplicity, who is responsible.
Articles by Eileen Joy
\Eileen Joy is a specialist in Old English literary studies and cultural studies, as well as a para-academic rogue drone-strike machine, with interests and a wide variety of publications in poetry and poetics, historiography, ethics, affects, embodiments, queer studies, the politics of friendship, speculative realism, object oriented ontology, the ecological, and the post/human. She is the Lead Ingenitor of the BABEL Working Group, Editor of \\postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies,\\ Director of punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion, and Assoc. Director of punctum records.\