Editor's Message

The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate

“…According to Davis, the acceptance letter, despite claims to the contrary, offered no evidence that the article actually went through peer review (Davis 2009b;Shepherd 2009). To be fair, it should be noted that Davis did submit the article to another of Bentham's journals and in that case it was rejected by the editor based on reviewer comments (Davis 2009a). Although certainly not definitive, the case of Bentham does hint at the ways that the dissemination of academic research, even under the banner of open access, can be subsumed within the logic of capital in ways that portend potentially disastrous results for the broader knowledge ecology.…”