"They heard the sound as an augury..."
Jan 20, 2017
The Philosophical Salon
Through the interpretative lens of today’s leading thinkers, The Philosophical Salon illuminates the persistent intellectual queries and the most disquieting concerns of our actuality.
Announcing Writing, Medium, Machine
Oct 15, 2016
Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies
This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature.
Announcing Being Up For Grabs
Sep 12, 2016
Being Up For Grabs
A remarkable speculative and anarcheological effort, Being Up For Grabs aims to reach a broad and encompassing view of the sensible world while conceiving it as lacking any arché.
New J. Hillis Miller collection in English and German
Aug 10, 2016
Literature Matters
Why and to what end should we read, teach, and occupy our time with literary and/or cultural studies? A new collection of essays edited by Monika Reif-Hülser.
Lektüren-Interventionen
Warum und wozu Literaturwissenschaft, oder im erweiterten Sinne ‚Kulturwissenschaft‘? Zusammengestellt, eingeleitet und übersetzt von Monika Reif-Hülser.
New book, Digital Humanities and Digital Media
Jul 19, 2016
Digital Humanities and Digital Media
In this lively and engaging book, Roberto Simanowski interviews key figures in the Digital Humanities, shedding new light on the intersections between digital humanities, digital media studies and the current state of digital media development.
Announcing The Being of Analogy
Mar 25, 2016
The Being of Analogy
In The Being of Analogy, Noah Roderick unleashes similarity onto the world of objects. Inspired by object-oriented theories of causality, Roderick argues that similarity is ever present at the birth of new objects.
30 years after Chernobyl
Feb 26, 2016
The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness
A collaboration between philosopher Michael Marder and artist Anaïs Tondeur, this book unites images, reflections, and personal narrative to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986.
Welcoming two more journals to OHP
Jan 26, 2016
Affirmations of the Modern
Affirmations publishes the best in international research on modern art, letters, and cultures, with an interest in acts of theoretical and political coordination.
Religion and Gender
Religion and Gender aims to explore the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts.
Announcing Photomediations
Jan 11, 2016
Photomediations
Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty scholarly and curatorial essays collected here cuts across the traditional classification of photography as suspended between art and social practice in order to capture the dynamism of the photographic medium today. It also explores photography’s kinship with other media – and with us, humans, as media.
Happy New Year (wink)
Jan 01, 2016
In Catastrophic Times
Isabelle Stengers claims we are living under an epochal shift: the possibility of a global climate crisis is now upon us. Pollution, the poison of pesticides, the exhaustion of natural resources, falling water tables, growing social inequalities – these are all problems that can no longer be treated separately.
Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
In Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene.
