Publicare

The Latin 'publicare,' meaning to 'make public,' provides the root of our English verb 'publish.' Midway between Latin and contemporary English, 'to publish' also meant 'to people, to populate, to multiply, to breed,' hence our notion that publishing creates publics--communities bound together by shared revelations, understandings, values, and practices. Influenced by Makoto Fujimura's notion of 'culture care,' Kurt Milberger will consider how these notions shape our lives as writers and beyond.

Today we’re accustomed to recalling the nineteenth-century Luddites with a smirk of embarrassment. We trot out the name of their movement to poke fun at…
A couple weeks ago, scholars on Twitter lamented the long timelines of academic publishing. Occasioned by the 2023 publication of a monograph with a…
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A New Column by Kurt Milberger
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