OOO Journal
The news is all over the OOO media already, but hell, a blogpost is a small effort to give my support to this: the indefatigable Paul Ennis managed to set up an (open access, yay!) Object Oriented Ontology Journal, under Open Humanities Alliance. Provisional title: ‘Speculations’. Cheeky.
As a declared fan of open access with fugacious interests in objectology I cannot but be happy about this. As I said before, I see OOP and its ‘internet diffusion’ as somewhat deeply connected.
Unfortunately, there already has been some gratuitous mockery about this project (see the comments to Paul’s post). I find it absurd and extremely unfair towards someone like Paul who–in my experience of him–is all but a fight-picker, and always a self-ironic and humble person.
Fabio Cunctator
Well I think it’s pretty clear who ‘anonymous’ is and as long as something is associated with Levi then it will attract ‘anonymous’. Anyway behind the abuse there were some legit questions and whoever it is must at least have some offbeat interest in the journal or else they’d not waste time leaving comments (at least I hope so).
Hard to be anonymous when something like IP trackers exist
Sure, a journal must be a lot of work, but I did not appreciate the irony towards your ‘OOO Hub’ experiment. I guess this is what the journal will aim to be, not just a place to glorify the egos of OOOntologists, but actually a place which allows people from the outside of the movement to have a grasp onto OOO through one main source, without having to navigate a year+ of blogposts from 4+ different blogs. I am a supporter of philosophical blogging, but I do recognize that it can be quite disheartening for someone who just came across them, and that just wants an answer to the question ‘what is this OOO all about?’
As I see it, this is a very auspicable goal.
Oh yes the reference to the OOOhub was clearly a kicker! But yeah the problem with the OOOhub was that nobody reads a blog just to find links to other blogs. I’m certainly hoping to attract critical papers and judging from the response so far there is likely to be a pretty even balance.