The Coronoia Revolutions and The Coronoia Trinity
New paperback and eBook published along with a collection of volumes 1-3.
As the crisis is chugging along, I set aside a few days to collect, sort, edit, and format another 15 recent blog posts for volume 3 of the Coronoia series, “The Coronoia Revolutions: Witnessing the Failure of Public Health and the Loss of Common Sense in the Western Matrix.” The last word in the subtitle may give away why I used “The Coronoia Trinity” for a separately published collection of volumes 1-3.
The “Revolutions” volume is a 98-page, 21,000-word compendium of 15 chapters drawn from a few different sources. The five chapters in Part I: Covid Ethics and Civil Rites of Passage span the entire time period covered by the book, from September 11 to November 30, 2021. These chapters originate from my faculty blog at Ryerson University, from this new Substack blog, and from the October 2021 newsletter of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship. Part II: The Corona Data Circus Continues is entirely sourced from my other new blog on the cryptocurrency site read.cash/@ClausR2020. Lastly, Part III: The Tortuous Path Ahead is composed of posts published in October on my faculty blog and in November on this blog.
The “Coronoia Trinity” bundle includes all three Coronoia volumes in greyscale print. The reason that the individual volumes are relatively expensive for self-published books is the colour print. I find the quality very good but Amazon’s minimum price is somewhat high. The greyscale option makes the 294-page collection no more expensive than either of the three individual volumes. For the title page, I got sick of the mask-on-beach style used for the three volumes and showed “my” beautiful, maskfree beach after a wind storm.
On another note, several colleagues asked about non-Amazon options to purchase the books. One alternative is to order author copies, where Amazon charges only the printing and shipping costs. I did have some misgivings about working with Amazon’s Kindle Desktop Publishing unit, but the publishing convenience, cost, speed, and reach are amazing compared to the local Canadian alternatives I explored for volume 1. Once the contents is written, formatting is a matter of days and publishing a matter of hours, compared to academic publishing, which takes months if not years. For example, I have a chapter in “The Future of Open Data” forthcoming with the University of Ottawa Press, scheduled for publication on 24 May 2022. The research was done by my graduate student in summer of 2017, the manuscript written and revised in 2018, the edited book finalized after a hiatus in spring 2021, with copyediting completed in August 2021 — years later, with the better part of another year to go until release!
I find it quite revealing of this moment in time that a printed book feels safer from censorship than online publications. Yet all Coronoia book contents, with the exception of the brief prefaces and conclusions, is currently available online for free reading. If you choose to order the paperback(s) or eBook(s) for easier reading, to add to your library, or to give to a fence-sitter for the holidays, thank you! Please also consider leaving a review on the site.