Announcing Being Up For Grabs
Sep 12, 2016
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.
New book, Digital Humanities and Digital Media
Jul 19, 2016
Announcing The Being of Analogy
Mar 25, 2016
30 years after Chernobyl
Feb 26, 2016
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.
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.
Two new books
Sep 17, 2015
The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller
The film-book The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller is a film book based on the documentary film about J. Hillis Miller by Dragan Kujundžić in 2010.
Announcing Plankton Dreams
Jun 30, 2015
Plankton Dreams: What I Learned in Special-Ed
In Plankton Dreams, Mukhopadhyay crafts a proud, satiric style: the special ed student as literary troublemaker. ‘Mother had always taught me to learn from circumstance,’ he writes. ‘Here, the circumstance was humiliation, a particularly instructive teacher.’ ‘But I’m not complaining,’ he continues. ‘Humiliation, after all, made me a philosopher.