Sounds fantastic!  So glad lst issue is shaping up!
Luanne

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From: Center for Theory
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Sent: 2/15/2004 6:19 PM
Subject: update on electronic journal

A quick update on the emergence of the new journal Fast Capitalism:

Submissions, abstracts, proposals, promises of future submissions and
initial contacts are pouring in.  I have received at least 40 such
interventions from authors.  Ten finished papers have been submitted to
date.  One has been accepted (subject to author-induced revisions in
light
of reviews); two have been rejected; two have received
revise-and-resubmit
decisions; and the other five papers are still being reviewed.
I am extremely grateful to UTA reviewers and reviewers off site for
their
generosity in providing detailed and thoughtful comments.  Most
reviewers
have responded promptly, enabling me to give authors quicker editorial
reactions than they might receive from traditional pulp outlets.
Another
benefit of electronic publishing and editing is that I as editor can
work
closely and efficiently with authors as they put their papers through a
process of 'development.'
Most of the papers received so far have been quite creative.  The most
notable thing about the submissions is their genuinely international
origins
and scope:  Papers have been received from the U.S., Canada, Australia,
Egypt and Switzerland.  Proposals and promises of submissions have been
equally international, a sure sign that our electronic journal will
eventually have a global readership. It is clear to me that authors
around
the world are thinking through the impact of information and
communication
technologies on self, society and culture in the 21st century.
As papers flow in, I will be calling on many of you to serve as
reviewers.
And I continue to urge you and your graduate students to consider
submitting
work and to exhort your disciplinary colleagues to do so.  At this
point, I
am hoping to have enough accepted papers by end of summer that we can
post
the first number of the journal at www.uta.edu/fastcap soon thereafter.

Ben