Comments on: Pomo Periscope XVI: An Unusually Honest Journal

By: twofish

twofish — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:40:58 +0000

There are actually some very good articles in that journal. Also I wouldn’t use citations to judge quality, since that gets circular. People read the authors, journals, and articles that people read.

What I consider a good article is something that teaches me something that I didn’t know before. You can take a post-modernist anarchist leftist loon, put then on a train in Siberia, and I’d be interested in reading what they came up with since I’ve never been on a train in Siberia, and I think I know enough about their politics to filter that out.

I find articles by post-modernists ironic and funny in the same way that I find comedians ironic and funny and comedians sometimes have some deep insight into the way the world works.

The big problem I have with post-modernists is this maddening refusal to write well. On occasion post-modernists make some really interesting points, but the refusal to write clearly means that no one outside the circle realizes when that happens.

By: Nicolai Foss

Nicolai Foss — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:30:34 +0000

Just checked cites on google scholar for the first issue of E., published 6 years ago. Usually the articles in the founding issue of a journal attract quite some attention. And Jeremy tells us that this is “solid” research that “enlighten” and “strengthen” us all.

Oh well, the Gibson Burrell article attracts 10 cites, mainly in very minor journals, the O’Shea article attractds 8 cites, including 2 self-cites, and the Parker and Thanem articles each attract 0 cites. Not very impressive, given how solid etc. all this purportedly is.

By: Nicolai Foss

Nicolai Foss — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:15:03 +0000

Jeremy, You gotta be kidding here. Who is citing work published in the rightly titled Ephemera? Who is using it? What impact does it have anywhere except in the self-centred little circles that are obsessed with what is truly blah-blah-blah (Guattari, Deleuze etc etc)?

By: jeremy hunsinger

jeremy hunsinger — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:12:39 +0000

nonsense? as compared to the nonsense of people trying to box up entrepreneurship in an explicable little box? If you are going to provide a critique, at least provide some substance. ephemera publishes sometimes an unusual article or three, but it is a solid journal that publishes many solid theoretical articles that if considered could enlighten and strengthen much of the more standard - blah blah blah- research in organizations and markets.