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Fast Capitalism

Policies

Peer Review Process

When Ben Agger and Timothy W. Luke founded Fast Capitalism, they were frustrated by traditional so-called refereed journals that use peer reviewing as a political shield. We are convinced that editing is undecidedly authorial work, which is to say that editors have a great deal of control over what they publish-picking reviewers, reading and interpreting reviews, passing advice back to authors, making final editorial decisions. The process is far from objectively grounded in a Platonic notion of quality or merit. It is, as all readings are, political. We resist and deplore the editorial will to power, which pretends that there is an Archimedean standard of quality that is external to the busy, muddy literary work that underlies intellectual life. We expose submitted papers to multiple sets of reviewer eyeballs, but we never pretend that peer review is a value-free, positivist process certain to extrude "excellence" from authors.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Open access is a fundamental aspect of Fast Capitalism. We do not charge authors to make their articles open access - we feel charging is anathema to open access.

Institutional Repositories

Fast Capitalism allows authors to deposit versions of their work in an institutional repository. Authors may deposit any version of their manuscripts (the submitted version, accepted version and/or the published version) in an institutional or other repository. Authors must acknowledge publication in Fast Capitalism using a citation and link to the published version.

Sponsors

Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington https://centerfortheory.uta.edu/