Transcript Sarah Kember – At Risk - Centre for Disruptive Media

At Risk?
The Humanities and the Future of Academic
Publishing
Sarah Kember
‘the system that supports humanistic knowledge itself
is at risk’
A Day in the Life of Janet Smart
iMedia. The Gendering of Objects, Environments and
Smart Materials
(Palgrave, forthcoming)
performance, openness, transparency, efficiency,
accountability
The discourses, practices and techniques of finance
– audits, metrics, citation indexes and so on – are
said to govern academic life, but what of gender and
other differentials in this govern/ability?
There are no quick, or tech-only solutions to problems
in academic publishing that, for me, are not ‘from’ –
‘to’ crises but entrenchments and extensions of
instrumentalization, masculinization and marketization.
The do-it-all scholar-entrepreneur actually has very few
options for communication if the place they are coming
from is the research monograph/article and the place
they are going to is the TED talk.