Announcing Realist Magic
February 15, 2013
Realist Magic — by Timothy Morton
In Realist Magic, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of Object Oriented Ontology for thinking causality.
Celebrating Open Access Week with new books
16 October, 2012
In anticipation of Open Access Week this year (Oct. 22–28), we're delighted to release new books in our Critical Climate Change and New Metaphysics series
Terror, Theory and the Humanities — edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Uppinder Mehan
The events of September 11, 2001, have had a strong impact on theory and the humanities. They call for a new philosophy, as the old philosophy is inadequate to account for them. They also call for reflection on theory, philosophy, and the humanities in general. While the recent location and killing of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, in Pakistan on May 2, 2011—almost ten years after he and his confederates carried out the 9/11 attacks—may have ended the “war on terror,” it has not ended the journey to understand what it means to be a theorist in the age of phobos nor the effort to create a new philosophy that measures up with life in the new millennium. It is in the spirit of hope—the hope that theory will help us to understand the age of terror—that the essays in this collection are presented.
New Materialism — by Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin
This book is the first monograph on the theme of “new materialism,” an emerging trend in 21st century thought that has already left its mark in such fields as philosophy, cultural theory, feminism, science studies, and the arts. The first part of the book contains elaborate interviews with some of the most prominent new materialist scholars of today: Rosi Braidotti, Manuel DeLanda, Karen Barad, and Quentin Meillassoux. The second part situates the new materialist tradition in contemporary thought by singling out its transversal methodology, its position on sexual differing, and by developing the ethical and political consequences of new materialism.
New Book Release
June 16, 2012
The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies by John Carlos Rowe
In The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies, John Carlos Rowe argues that the tradition of “cultural criticism” advocated by influential public intellectuals such as Edward Said can be adapted to the new circumstances demanded by the hegemony of neoliberalism and its successful command of new media. But this adaptation also requires we re-conceive of the role of the public intellectual - not simply as the “interdisciplinary scholar” but as a social critic able to negotiate the different media.
Theory in the Era of Critical Climate Change
15 May, 2012
We're delighted to release two new volumes in the Critical Climate Change series
Telemorphosis — edited by Tom Cohen
The writers in the volume ask, implicitly, how the 21st century horizons that exceed any political, economic, or conceptual models alters or redefines a series of key topoi. These range through figures of sexual difference, bioethics, care, species invasion, war, post-carbon thought, ecotechnics, time, and so on. As such, the volume is also a dossier on what metamorphoses await the legacies of “humanistic” thought in adapting to, or rethinking, the other materialities that impinge of contemporary “life as we know it.” With essays by Robert Markley, J. Hillis Miller, Bernard Stiegler, Justin Read, Timothy Clark, Claire Colebrook, Jason Groves, Joanna Zylinska, Catherine Malabou, Mike Hill, Martin McQuillan, Eduardo Cadava and Tom Cohen.
Impasses of the Post-Global — edited by Henry Sussman
The diverse materials comprising Impasses of the Post-Global take as their starting point an interrelated, if seemingly endless sequence of current ecological, demographic, socio-political, economic, and informational disasters. These include the contemporary discourses of deconstruction, climate change, ecological imbalance and despoilment, sustainability, security, economic bailout, auto-immunity, and globalization itself. With essays by James H. Bunn, Rey Chow, Bruce Clarke, Tom Cohen, Randy Martin, Yates McKee, Alberto Moreiras, Haun Saussy, Tian Song, Henry Sussman, Samuel Weber, Ewa P. Ziarek, and Kryzsztof Ziarek.
New journals!
27 March 2012
This month, we're very happy to welcome three more Open Access journals to the OHP collective: Glossator, Inflexions, and Culture Unbound. Like all the OHP journals, these have been chosen by OHP's Editorial Board for their outstanding contribution to scholarship.
Learn more about the journal selection process.
Living Books about Life
16 January 2011
By creating twenty one ‘living books about life’ in just seven months, the series represents a new model for publishing, in a sustainable, low-cost manner, many more such books in the future. These books can be freely shared with other academic and non-academic institutions, organizations and individuals. Taken together, they constitute an interdisciplinary resource for researching and teaching relevant science issues across the humanities, a resource that is capable of enhancing the intellectual and pedagogic experience of working with open access materials.
All the books in the series are themselves ‘living’, in the sense they are open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers. As well as repackaging open access science research -- along with interactive maps, visualizations, podcasts and audio-visual material -- into a series of books, Living Books About Life is thus engaged in rethinking ‘the book’ itself as a living, collaborative endeavor.
