Independent publishing can revive a public intellectual discourse

Evidence

Zer0 books knows that another kind of discourse — intellectual without being academic, popular without being populist — is not only possible: it is already flourishing, in the regions beyond the striplit malls of so-called mass media and the neurotically bureaucratic halls of the academy. Zer0 is committed to the idea of publishing as a making public of the intellectual. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 292

Categorization

• SEED: A manifesto phrasing usable for an essay on what independent small presses do that corporate media and academia no longer can.
• XREF: connects to: A single popular book could crystallize a scattered intellectual network into a movement — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 166; Strikes across publishing and culture build a base for renewed representation — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 378; Printing and publishing vested interests check the movement of ideas — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 804 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Scholarly citation conventions can be replaced by conversational allusion #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 30
• A single popular book could crystallize a scattered intellectual network into a movement #corroborates (0.75) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 166
• Printing and publishing vested interests check the movement of ideas #contradicts (0.75) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 804
• Strikes across publishing and culture build a base for renewed representation #expands (0.72) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 378