Copy Editor for Philosophy Anthology

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Summary

Seeking a skilled copy editor for a book that is an anthology of philosophy allegories in the form of discourse vignettes (mostly). 38,000 words. Responsibilities include reviewing and refining the manuscript to ensure clarity, coherence, and consistency; in terms of grammar, word choice, punctuation and spelling. I want to spare my poor readers copy-edit level errors. This book is meant to be a prototype used to seek investors for a much better version of it I hope to make in the future. Perfect editing would be wasted on this text, as it is deeply flawed at the developmental level. Candidate must tolerate my ideological stances against all religion, and my challenges to other ideologies both progressive and conservative. We exchange the text in .docx format. I write in LibreOffice Writer, which I'm told can exchange with Microsoft Word for simple mark-ups. We'll need to test that. I'm using EB Garamond font with LibreOffice generated bold and italics. I hope the exchanges preserve these bold and italic words. Here is my proposed blurb about the book: This book offers a new perspective on the project of relieving suffering by means of philosophically informed ideology, one that suggests a calculated compromise between egalitarian and elitist approaches. This new approach, called “inequality lamentism”, rejects the post-modern anti-reason cancel-chaos underpinning most egalitarianism; while also dissuading us against the modernist fetishized over-absolutism behind elitism/fascism. This can be thought of as an anthem for epistemic meta-modernism and a call for “woke 2.0”. In offering this new approach, the author commits the sin of rejecting all known ideological approaches to relieving global misery. Thus this book is also the author’s crypto-autobiographic quest for redemption from his sin. Of course, the author has no confidence that their inequality lamentism will be taken seriously, and likewise no hope of earning the redemption he seeks. Consequently, the author wraps their offering in deep, artfully expressed pessimism. The ideas and themes are unique, original, passionate, and creatively expressed. But, unfortunately, their presentation is un-scholarly, often repetitive, and sloppy; owing to the author’s poverty and clinical lethargy. The author thus invites us to consider the book more as a work of text art, or a coded artifact of their psychosis, or both. Either way, prepare for about .368 WTF moments per page. The format is a somewhat ordered collection of allegorical discourse vignettes (and some poems) wherein you’ll meet such characters as: Instance of Great Suffering, The Omnipotence Twins (Deity and Culture), The Angel of Mereological Nihilism (a challenge to hard AI-based accelerationism), The Shrine Keeper at the Great Epistemic Quagmire, and Instance of Even Greater Suffering. By inexplicable whim of the author, these vignettes are summonsed whenever Agent Konrad rotates a reality-shuffling piston named “Quoxy Kwahksie 17/11”. The volume includes an “Appendix for Philosophy Geeks” wherein the author offers a brief snapshot of their takes on metaphysics, epistemology, physicalism vs anti-physicalism, and meta-ethics. WARNING: Contains vulgar language.

  • $1,800.00

    Fixed-price
  • Intermediate
    Experience Level
  • Remote Job
  • Ongoing project
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Copy Editing
Proofreading
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Copywriting
Editorial Writing
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  • United States
    12:43 AM

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