1. Kathleen Fitzpatrick // @kfitz kfitzpatrick@mla.org Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

2. In many cases, traditions last not because they are excellent, but because influential people are averse to change and because of the sheer burdens of transition to a better state. — Cass Sunstein, Infotopia

3. obsolescence

4. death

5. digital humanities

6. the humanities in and for the digital age

7. scholarship in and for the digital age

8. scholarly communication

13. “too much financial risk... to pursue in the current economy” — the marketing guys

14. “They were planning on making money off of your book?” — Mom

15. book ≠ dying form

25. change

26. conservative

27. We Have Never Done It That Way Before

28. “While we are very adept at discussing the texts of novels, plays, poems, film, advertising, and even television shows, we are usually very reticent, if not wholly unwilling, to examine the textuality of our own profession, its scripts, values, biases, and behavioral norms.” — Donald Hall

29. self-criticism

30. change

31. social, intellectual and institutional change

32. cost access

33. the ways we research

34. the ways we write

35. the ways we review

36. peer review

38. but

40. disciplinary technology

41. self-policing

42. gatekeeping

43. scarcity is over

44. plenitude

45. create artificial scarcity

46. coping with abundance

47. impact

48. post-publication

49. whether a text should be published

50. how it has been (and should be) received

51. from regulation to communication

52. facilitating

53. “peer-to-peer review”

54. “the new metrics of scholarly authority” — Michael Jensen

55. scarcity

56. filters

58. 31,650+ pageloads 12,100+ first-time visitors 3370+ return visitors 295 comments 44 commenters

59. 400

60. “publication”

61. authorship

62. products

63. processes

64. community

65. “We know now that a text consists not of a line of words, released a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God), but of a multi- dimensional space in which are married and contested several writings, none of which is original: the text is a fabric of quotations, resulting from a thousand sources of culture.” — Roland Barthes

66. interaction

67. process

68. control

69. collaborative

70. originality

71. remix

72. publishers

73. libraries

74. universities

75. knowledge production

77. Office of Scholarly Communication

78. communication

79. the future of the book

80. born-digital platforms

81. the future of the book

82. New Variorum Shakespeare Digital Challenge

83. sustainability

84. born-digital platforms

102. scholarship in and for the digital age

103. communication

104. social

105. thanks! Kathleen Fitzpatrick // @kfitz kfitzpatrick@mla.org