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Ben,
I don't think the Center for Theory website is bad. It seems appropriate to
me for its purpose--just to show I'm not all negativity :) :)
Best,
Matthew
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Agger" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 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
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