--- layout: layouts/base.njk title: "Planned Obsolescence" tags: page --- # Planned Obsolescence Planned Obsolescence book cover [*Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy*](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814727883/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=plannedobsole-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0814727883) focuses on the social and institutional changes facing scholars, librarians, publishers, and administrators in higher education in the U.S. as our modes of communicating become increasingly digital. [*Planned Obsolescence*](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814727883/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=plannedobsole-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0814727883) was published by [NYU Press](http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookid=5008) in November 2011 and has been written about or reviewed in a number of publications, including: - Alessandra Tosi in [*Times Higher Education*](http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=418126) - Neil Baldwin in Montclair State University’s [Creative Research Center Director’s Blog](https://blogs.montclair.edu/crdirector/2011/11/29/kathleen-fitzpatricks-essential-new-book-planned-obsolescence-publishing-technology-and-the-future-of-the-academy-the-crc-december-2011-spotlight-review-by-neil-baldwin/) - Stanley Fish in [the *New York Times* Opinionator blog](http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/the-digital-humanities-and-the-transcending-of-mortality/) - Malcolm on [Goodreads](http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/244233170) - Alex Halavais on [A Thaumaturgical Compendium](http://alex.halavais.net/review-planned-obsolescence) (and forthcoming in *New Media & Society*) - Houman Barekat in the [Los Angeles Review of Books](http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=673&fulltext=1&media=) [*Planned Obsolescence*](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814727883/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=plannedobsole-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=0814727883) was openly peer reviewed at [MediaCommons Press](http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence) in fall 2009; the draft version remains available online for open discussion.