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The destructive force of corporatism is no more evident than it is here -- an indifference to even the written word in the search for impossible profits. Years ago, Routledge, beloved by us nutty pomo academics, a leading press for avant garde thought (and the publisher of Wittgenstein, among others) fired Bill Germano, who had resurrected it as a force in thought, once bought by a German conglomerate. You had to wonder then, and I continue to wonder now, what is going to happen.
As an author (who is in an article in yesterday's Salon!) with a major university press, I am beginning to think that such places may be our last refuge, though even here, it is becoming almost impossible to make the profit needed to continue. Are we entering a new dark age?
