I had a very weird exchange with Oxford University Press the other day that made me realise how deeply they are implicated in the surveillance capitalism we’ve grown accustomed to from Elsevier and the like. The good news: there are plenty of alternatives. I already favoured open access diamond publishers and have in recent years declined many invitations to contribute to this or that handbook (as my colleagues can attest — sorry, Oxford Handbook of Iconicity editors). I won’t be publis...
