more on the academic status of blogs

Last night I was reading a passage in Stendhal’s The Red and the Black about the low social status of bookstores in the Eastern France of 1830. The mayor makes sure to get a subscription to the store in the name of his lowliest valet, things like that. But in other times and places, perhaps including ours, bookstores can be viewed as the very epitome of a serious physical location.

Blogs are still perhaps in an analogously unserious social-academic position. But that’s destined to change at some point, I’m fairly sure. And here’s a nice step along that path: in announcing the launch of the Speculative Realism series, the emailed version of the Edinburgh University Press catalog has linked to this blog, and to THIS POST in particular.