SOUTHWEST HUMANITIES

Southwest Humanities LC provides translation (Spanish-to-English), editing, and indexing services for academic and other professional writers.

Spanish-to-English Translation

Southwest Humanities’ founder and owner, Andrew Ascherl, is an accomplished Spanish-to-English translator. Since 2015, Andrew has translated several academic monographs from Spanish to English, including work by Nelly Richard, Santiago Castro-Gómez, and Mabel Moraña. These books have been or will soon be published by Cambria Press, Polity Press, and Columbia University Press. Andrew is available for consultation for future translation projects, and can be reached at aascherl@gmail.com

Editing and Proofreading

All writing can benefit from careful review by an editor and proofreader. The professional editing services we offer attend to the mechanics of English grammar, structure, usage, phrasing, consistency, and commonly accepted style conventions that academic publishers use. We implement a wide variety of editorial services and can tailor them to each client’s particular needs, helping the author’s voice and ideas come through in writing that is clear, concise, and polished.

We apply our skills and expertise to your manuscript to correct errors, smooth out problems with phrasing, structure, and style, and to provide the kind of feedback necessary to prepare a manuscript for submission or for publication. Follow this link for more information about the editing and proofreading services we offer at Southwest Humanities.

We also offer developmental editing services for writers who are at an earlier point in their writing process and need assistance of a larger scope than what is provided by copy-editing. This service includes weekly or bi-weekly phone/video call meetings, priority attention during the drafting and revision process, and complete copy-editing services. Follow this link for additional information.

We specialize in editing academic theses, articles, and book manuscripts for publication but also have substantial experience editing other types of written documents and websites. For a quick and free estimate for your editing or proofreading needs, please contact us: aascherl@gmail.com or 716-228-4198.

Indexing

Southwest Humanities also offers academic indexing services. These days, most academic publishers require authors to compile an index for their soon to be published books. Typically one of the final steps before an academic book’s publication, indexing can be an arduous task for an author who has already spent years reading, revising, and refining a manuscript. Since 2014, the specialists at Southwest Humanities have prepared thorough and professional indexes for dozens of academic monographs and edited collections. Contact us today for a quick and free estimate for the index for your forthcoming book: aascherl@gmail.com
or (716) 228-4198.

Southwest Humanities is very proud and pleased to announce that another book we have indexed has now been published. Revolutions of Capitalism: The Politics of the Event by Maurizio Lazzarato was published by Duke University Press on 7 April 2026. Revolutions of Capitalism (expertly translated by Brian Whitener and Geo Maher) is a theoretically ambitious work that rethinks the nature of contemporary capitalism by shifting attention away from traditional Marxist emphases on labor and value. Drawing on a wide range of thinkers, including Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Gabriel Tarde, and Mikhail Bakhtin, Lazzarato argues that capitalism today operates through the capture and organization of social cooperation and the management of what he calls “the possible.” Central to this framework is the concept of “noo-politics,” a form of power that acts at a distance on minds by shaping attention, memory, and perception, thereby constraining what individuals and societies can imagine or create.

Against this pervasive system of control, the book foregrounds the political importance of the “event”—moments of rupture that open up new possibilities and challenge the idea that there is only one viable social or economic order. Lazzarato interprets contemporary social movements as struggles over not just resources or representation, but in relation to the very production of possible futures, seeking to break free from capitalism’s tendency to limit and channel creativity into predetermined forms. By reframing capitalism as a system that governs subjectivity, communication, and potentiality itself, the book makes a significant contribution to political theory, critical theory, and contemporary philosophy. It offers scholars and activists alike a conceptual toolkit for understanding both the subtle mechanisms of control in late capitalism and the transformative possibilities of resistance beyond it.

For more information about this excellent new title, please see the publisher’s website here.