Using the art-as-virus metaphor, a work is only as great as its ancestry allows. Every piece before it must offer something for its successor to solve, improve upon, or find itself in conversation with. I’m in debt to the founding roundup manifesto, circa 2014, which explains what I see as the needfulness of these series of posts:
By showing the diversity and quality of posts on academic publishing blogs, we hope to help demonstrate the role of university presses in bringing scholarly conversations into the public sphere, and to show that this facilitation happens through the blogs of scholarly publishers as well as through our books.
Indeed, I hope these weekly posts bring you a satisfying synthesis of the diverse and urgent ideas scholarly publishers offer. Until next week!