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Film scholar @ Goethe Uni Frankfurt. Research: http://konfigurationen-des-films.de http://ceditraa.net https://age-c.eu/ Editor of https://meson.press/series-page/configurations-of-film/ https://www.aup.nl/en/series/film-theory-in-media-history
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In einer Welt, in der "mehr Perspektiven" vor allem bedeutet Pseudowissenschaft à la Thilo Sarrazin auf die selbe Stufe zu heben wie qualitätsgeprüfte Forschung.
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Let me just say that is a term that I have heard, among others, from someone working for AUP who had previously worked for Elsevier. There are business models, and then there are business models.
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2019, G Geltner wrote this helpful blog post on the developments back then: guygeltner.squarespace.com/blog/2582019... it was also published (in Dutch) by @foliacivitatis.bsky.social www.folia.nl/opinie/13133... I hope Folia will pick it up again
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Yes, the takeover destroys the brand.
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AUP is only their distributor. Should not be affected.
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AUP had been a private company for some time.
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It's a model that worked well for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie.
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of course, rent drawn on the intellectual labor of mostly tax-payer funded researchers.
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Executive Director, Stephen Andrew Carter, earned a total compensation of £4.2 million in 2024. This roughly corresponds to € 5Mio., or fifty years of the salary of a full professor at a German university. The salary of the CEO of Talyor & Francis is estimated to be around €500k. All of this is,
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expected, a Swiss company. More specifically, one located in Zug, Switzerland, a notorious tax haven, a crypto hotspot and the world's most important resource-trading location. And just as a back-up they have a secon headquarters in another tax haven, Jersey. Informa's Group Chief Executive &
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corporate take-over of a privately owned company
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The institutional connection became tenuous about a decade ago, but you could say that UvA sold out when they chose not to retain the press they had helped build.
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The film and media editor has been fired as part of the takeover. There is no doubt about the nature of this transaction.
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AUP was vulnerable because it had been handed over to a private individual in a moment of financial crisis.
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Die Shahed-Drohne des Geistes.
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Patat oorlog
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Mein Verdacht ist, dass diese Nostalgie weniger der untergegangenen Welt selbst gilt als vielmehr der Rolle des (männlichen) Kritikers in ihr: Es geht um eine Sehnsucht nach Bedeutsamkeit. Die Welt, um die sie trauern, ist eine, in der Kritik noch im Zentrum kultureller Aufmerksamkeit stand
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