Announcing Executing Practices
Nov 22, 2018
Executing Practices
The DATA browser book series is delighted to announce the publication of Executing Practices. This collection brings together artists, curators, programmers, theorists and heavy internet users, all of whose practices make a critical intervention into the broad concept of execution.
Two new books
Nov 04, 2018
Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene
Declining calls to reaffirm or rehabilitate philosophical realism in the face of denials of climate change, Barbara Herrnstein Smith maintains that the most illuminating perspectives for conceptualization and practice in the Anthropocene are precisely those labeled, but commonly mischaracterized as, “relativist.”
Pellucid Paper
Adam Wickberg’s Pellucid Paper is an interdisciplinary study of the materiality of Early Modern poetry and its relation to political power, memory and subject constitution. It offers a radical account of the dynamic relationship between the death oriented aesthetics of vanitas, techniques and media of storage, and a form of mediated presence that permeates the inseparable spheres of the political and the aesthetic.
Announcing The Neganthropocene
Apr 25, 2018
The Neganthropocene
In The Neganthropocene, Bernard Stiegler opens an entirely new front in discussions of the Anthropocene. The first in the new Critical Climate Chaos series, here Stiegler stakes out a battleplan to proceed beyond the entropic vortex.
Welcoming the DATA browser series
Apr 09, 2018
DATA browser
The DATA browser book series celebrates the potential of browsing for dynamic rearrangement and interpretation of existing material into new configurations that are open to reinvention. The series takes theory or criticism not as a fixed set of tools or practices, but rather as an evolving chain of ideas that recognize the conditions of their own making.
Latest release: Gathering Ecologies
Mar 23, 2018
Gathering Ecologies
What might an interactive artwork look like that enabled greater expressive potential for all of the components of the event?
Welcoming two more journals
Feb 14, 2018
We’re delighted to welcome Communication +1 and NECSUS to the OHP collective:
communication +1
This journal attends to the theoretical frontiers of communication as an autonomous and distinct field of research.
NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies
NECSUS publishes on all aspects of media including textual, representational, and cinema-philosophical issues.
New book series: Critical Climate Chaos: Irreversibility
Sep 18, 2017
CCC2 Irreversibility
If the classic broad-tent platform of Critical Climate Change was, and remains, a tracking of the mutations and transformations which ‘climate change’ and the logics of Anthropocene extinction open, Critical Climate Chaos: Irreversibility would weaponize what might be called the second phase of ‘the Anthropocene,’ which occurs as the tipping points speculated over in ‘Anthropocene 1.0’ click into place to retire the speculative bubble or phase (Anthropocene Talk).
Latest release: Dream Machines
Jun 26, 2017
Dream Machines
Steven Connor’s Dream Machines is a history of imaginary machines and the ways in which machines come to be imagined. “This is an engaging and imaginative exploration of various forms of writing, thinking, and fantasizing about dream machines, an endlessly fertile topic probed here from just about every possible angle … a major intervention into current understandings of technology, literature, and identity.”
New book: The Principle of Unrest
Jun 10, 2017
The Principle of Unrest
Brian Massumi’s The Principle of Unrest explores the contemporary implications of an activist philosophy, pivoting on the issue of movement. Movement is understood not simply in spatial terms but as qualitative transformation: becoming, emergence, event. “More than providing an accessible introduction to his formidable corpus, The Principle of Unrest is a provocation to thought and call to action.”
Announcing Nocturnal Fabulations/Fabulations nocturnes
Apr 10, 2017
Nocturnal Fabulations
Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply ‘about’ Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his work in detail. It is a book that deeply questions what else might be at stake in setting up the conditions for collaboration across two genres: cinema and writing.
Fabulations nocturnes
Fabulations nocturnes est un essai d’intercession. Ce n’est pas simplement un livre à propos du cinéaste Apichatpong Weerasethakul, bien qu’il se penche de près sur son œuvre. C’est plutôt un livre qui interroge en profondeur quoi d’autre pourrait être en cause dans la mise en place des conditions de collaboration entre deux genres – le cinéma et l’écriture.
