Just when you think things can't get any worse you can always rely on the journal Sociology to prove you wrong. At the beginning of last year I was shaking my head in disbelief when they published a poem (in case you haven't heard of Sociology it is supposed to be a serious academic journal).
Now they have gone one better (or worse) and published a piece by John Holloway - A Note on Hope and Crisis - that seems, in nine numbered paragraphs, to be a text originally intended for Radio 4's "Thought for the Day" or perhaps for an obscure marxisant literary journal. I don't think it is too extreme to say that it has zero social scientific content.
What are the editors thinking about? What possible sense for instance can be made of paragraph 8 which consists of two sentences?
We are the crisis of capital and proud of it: that is our dignity, that is our hope. And our joy.
Well at least the editors have done some really serious editorial work as we can see from paragraph 9 where Holloway informs us: "The editors of Sociology have kindly suggested that it would be helpful to clarify my use of 'We'": Good to see they are earning their keep and maintaining linguistic if not intellectual standards.
So where are we going next? I dare someone to submit a photograph or the score of a musical composition. How could they possibly refuse it?
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