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The Discourse of Scholarly Communication recontextualizes the place
and purpose of scholarship within the context of the Enlightenment.
Patrick Gamsby argues that while Enlightenment/enlightenment is
often used in the mottos of numerous academic institutions, its
historical, social, and philosophical elements are largely
obscured. Using a theoretical lens, Gamsby revisits the ideals of
the Enlightenment alongside the often contradictory issues of
disciplinary boundaries, access to research, academic labor in the
production of scholarship (author, peer reviewer, editor, and
translator), the interrelationship of form and content (lectures,
textbooks, books, and essays), and the stewardship of scholarship
in academic libraries and archives. It is ultimately argued that
for the betterment of the scholarly communication ecosystem and the
betterment of society, anti-Enlightenment rules of scholarship such
as ‘publish or perish’ should be dispensed with in favor of the
formulation of a New Enlightenment.
Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life culls together the
scattered fragments of Henri Lefebvre's (1901-1991) unrealized
sociology of boredom. In assembling these fragments, sprinkled
through Lefebvre's vast oeuvre, Patrick Gamsby constructs the core
elements of Lefebvre's latent theory of boredom. Themes of time
(modernity, everyday), space (urban, suburban), and mass culture
(culture industry, industry culture) are explored throughout the
book, unveiling a concealed dialectical movement at work with the
experience of boredom. In analyzing at the dialectic of boredom,
Gamsby argues that Lefebvre's project of a critique of everyday
life is key for making sense of the linkages between boredom and
everyday life in the modern world.
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