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.
New book releases
15 December 2011
We're delighted to announce the release of six Open Access books under the OHP books imprint at MPublishing. The books are being released on rolling schedule beginning today. Read the press release (pdf)
The Democracy of Objects — Levi R. Bryant
Cover image by Tammy Lu
Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Read the book online.
"Bryant, already the author of an excellent book on Deleuze, steps out from the role of commentator to assume that of simply a philosopher, an independent constructor of concepts, one brave enough to tackle some of the deepest questions of ontology."
— John Protevi, Louisiana State University.
Immersion Into Noise — Joseph Nechvatal
Cover image by Joseph Nechvatal
Immersion Into Noise is intended as a conceptual handbook useful for the development of a personal-political-visionary art of noise. On a planet that is increasingly technologically linked and globally mediated, how might noises break and re-connect in distinctive and productive ways within practices located in the world of art and thought? That is the question Joseph Nechvatal explores in Immersion Into Noise. Read the book online.
"While most people would naturally think of noise as an audio-only disturbance, in Immersion Into Noise, digital artist and theoretician Joseph Nechvatal takes us on a rowdy conversional ride through a series of audio, visual, spatialized, and networked 'art noises'."
— Yuting Zou, The Brooklyn Rail
Latest Journal Issues
26 March 2011
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Special issue of Image [&] Narrative on Manga with essays by Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto, Emerald King, Eleonora Benecchi, Valérie Cools, Patrick W. Galbraith, Neil Cohn, Aurélien Pigeat, Febriani Sihombing, Giancarla Unser-Schutz, Julien Bouvard, Lev Manovich, Jeremy Douglass, William Huber and CJ (Shige) Suzuki.
New issue of Culture Machine The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing edited by Federica Frabetti and contributions from Jake Buckley, Johanna Drucker, Davin Heckman, Mauro Carassai, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Ganaele Langlois, Scott Dexter, Melissa Dolese, Angelika Seidel, Aaron Kozbelt, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa and David M. Berry.
New issue of Cosmos and History with essays by Roberto Echavarren, Thomas Muhr, Paulina Aroch Fugellie, Arturo Casas, Maria do Cebreiro Rabade Villar, Cornelia Gräbner, Burghard Baltrusch, Marcos Giadas, Nathalia Jabur and David M.J. Wood.
IJZS releases part two of the Latin American/Iberian Issue - Edited by Imanol Galfarsoro and Roque Farrán with essays by Óscar de Dios, Paula Jordão, Luis Felip López-Espinosa, Bécquer Medak-Seguín, Clara Raíssa Pinto de Góes and Carlos Augusto Santana Pereira.
Parrhesia's latest issue with features by Miguel de Beistegui, Jacques Rancière, Joanne Faulkner, Sean Ryan and Daniela Voss.
Recent Journal issues
16 January 2011
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New issue of Cosmos and History with essays by Graham Harman, Adrian Wilding, Haochen Sun, Joshua David Goldstein and Gavin Cameron, Keith R. Peterson, Stanley Salthe, Philip F Henshaw, Bent Sørensen and Torkild Leo Thellefsen.
New issue of Fast Capitalism including articles by Jason Powell, Kamilla Pietrzyk, Mark Featherstone, Katie Ellis and Mike Kent, Tara Brabazon, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Aleš Debeljak, James C. Smoot, Henry Giroux, Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin.
Special issue of Image [&] Narrative on Photography and the Book with essays by Alexander Streitberger, Mieke Bleyen, Ian Walker, Ulrike Matzer, Didier Mathieu, Olivier Mignon, David Evans, Leszek Brogowski, Jacques Lennep, Michel Baudson.
Latest issue of IJZS, guest edited by Marcus Pound on Žižek's Theology with Mads Peter Karlsen, Jayne Svenungsson, Daniel R Boscaljon, Thomas Lynch, Dan Webb, Adam Kotsko, Marcus Pound.
Parrhesia's latest issue with features by Thierry Bardini & Marie-Pier Boucher, Catherine Malabou and Frédéric Neyrat. Essays by Colin McQuillan, Jason E. Smith, Simon O'Sullivan.
Postcolonial Text has published an issue with contributions by David WF Mount, Angelia Poon, Pramod K Nayar, Anna-Leena Toivanen, Anna Cavness, Meredith Ramirez Talusan,
OHP celebrates Open Access Week 2010
10 October, 2010
As part of the worldwide celebration of Open Access week (18-24 October, 2010), OHP Steering Group members are participating in events around the world.
- Gary Hall, 'Radical Open Access in the Humanities', Columbia University, Monday, Oct. 18, 12:30 - 2:30, Alfred Lerner Hall Room 555
- Marta Brunner, 'The Open Humanities Press and the Development of New Publishing Opportunities in the Humanities', University of California at Davis, Thursday, October 21, 1pm-3pm, 126 Voorhies
Latest journal issues
12 September, 2010
Fibreculture Journal launches its new site with a special issue, Counterplay 16 (2010), edited by Tom Apperley and Michael Dieter.
New issue of Film-Philosophy 14.2 (2010): with essays by Jon Baldwin, Gerry Coulter, David B. Clarke, Hunter Vaughan, Kim Toffoletti, Alan Cholodenko, William Pawlett and Meena Dhanda.
New issue of Filozofski vestnik (2009): with essays by Vanessa Brito, Justin Clemens, David B. Clarke, Felix Ensslin, Jan Volker, Adrian Johnston, Lorenzo Chiesa, Marc de Kesel, Frank Ruda, Gernot Kamecke, Rado Riha, Jelica Šumič-Riha.
Latest issue of Image [&] Narrative: on Hauntings I: Narrating the Uncanny edited by Fabio Camilletti, Martin Doll and Rupert Gaderer with essays by Elisabeth Bronfen, Jan Niklas Howe, Laurie Johnson, Elisa Leonzio, Simona Micali and Sandra Evans.
New issue of Parrhesia 9 (2010): with essays by Stathis Gourgouris, François Laruelle, Maurizio Lazzarato, Thomas Lemke, Justin Clemens, John Mullarkey, Jack Reynolds, Jon Roffe, Barnaby Norman and Andrew Ryder.
Special Latin American/Iberian Issue of International Journal of Žižek Studies 4.3 (2010): Guest edited by Roque Farran & Imanol Galfarsoro, with contributions from Gonzalo Barciela, José Luis Bellón Aguilerai, Daniel Franco Romo, Elizabete Guerra, Paulo Gajanigo, Maximiliano Korstanje.
New issue of Postcolonial Text 5.3 (2010): with essays by Aurelie Marion Journo, Alison Toron, Marie Kruger, Tom Michael Mboya, Chris J.C Wasike, Benjamin M. O. Odhoji and Adrian Knapp.
Philosophy under threat
2 June, 2010
photo by Peter Hallward
Film-Philosophy publishes an open letter in support of the Middlesex Department of Philosophy: 'As an Open Access journal in the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy and Film, we publish international scholarly work and host an email discussion salon with an international membership. We can attest to the global profile of Middlesex Philosophy staff, research and teaching programmes in the work that we publish and in the debates they help to shape.' Read more ...
Sign the petition to save the Middlesex University Philosophy Department.
Recently published
3 April, 2010
International Journal of Žižek Studies, 4. 1 (2010): Žižek and Ideology, edited by Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi, with essays by Rex Butler, Jodi Dean, Jan Jagodzinski, Todd McGowan, Ricardo Camargo, Étienne Poulard and Daniel Hourigan.
From the editorial: "Nothing confirms the relevance of Žižek's critique of ideology more than the ferocious speed with which the deepest crisis in the history of capitalism has been naturalized and normalized within the short space of less than a year." Read more ...
New issue of Film-Philosophy 14.1 (2010): edited by David Sorfa and Greg Tuck with contributions by Randall Halle, Frances L. Restuccia, Bruno Lessard, Gregory Minissale, Naomi Merritt, Patricia Pisters, Julian Haladyn, Miriam Jordan.
New issue of Postcolonial Text, 5.2 (2009) : with articles by Olivia C Harrison, Khondlo Mtshali, Lindsey Moore, Masood Ashraf Raja, Bidisha Banerjee, Rachid Belghiti and Savitri Ashok.
Recent Issues
15 February, 2010
New issue of Culture Machine: Creative Media, edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska, with texts by Rowan Wilken, Gary Hall, Clare Birchall, Peter Woodbridge, Nina Sellars, Eleni Ikoniadou, Patrick Crogan, David Penny and Federica Frabetti.
New issue of Image & Narrative: Chris Marker (Part II) with essays by Peter Kravanja, Christa Blümlinger, Sarah Cooper, Matthias De Groof, Sylvain Dreyer, Sarah French, Adrian Martin and Susana S. Martins.
Special issue of International Journal of Žižek Studies: Žižek in Tehran, ed. Nathan Coombs, Vol 3.4 (2009) with articles by Reza Afshar, Reid Kane, Hamid Dabashi, Hossein Mousavi and Nathan Coombs, Christopher Cutrone,Carl Robert Packman, Sina Badiei and Luke Evans.
Also, latest issue of Postcolonial Text: 'On Things Fall Apart' with contributions by Uzoma Esonwanne, Neil ten Kortenaa, Susie O'Brien, Chelva Kanaganayakam. Also includes articles by Ashton Nichols, Hugh Hodges, and Daria Tunca.
This Month's Featured Journal
25 January, 2010
The Fibreculture Journal announces a call for papers: "Trans" - Transversals, Transduction, Transmateriality. Issue editors: Adrian Mackenzie, Andrew Murphie and Mitchell Whitelaw:
'We seek articles, theoretical or analytic, critical and/or propositional, that engage with contemporary media worlds within the parameters (or "conceptual parametrics") of three concepts: transduction, transmateriality, transversality.' Read more...
Out now: Issue 15, 2009: What Now?: The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix:
From the editorial: 'It became a minor phenomenon during 2007. By September 2009 it was a virus out of control. Described in Wired as a ‘popular internet meme’ (Wortham, 2008), the obsessive serial mash-up of a key sequence from Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2004 film of the last days of Adolf Hitler, Der Untergang (The Downfall), is suggestive of the cultural logic of the contemporary formation known as remix.' Read more...
Latest Journal Issues
28 November, 2009
Special issue of Parrhesia on the work of Gilbert Simondon, with translations of Simondon's 'The Position of the Problem of Ontogenesis' and 'Technical Mentality.' The issue also features articles by Bernard Stiegler, Jean-Hughes Barthélémy, Paolo Virno, and an interview with Brian Massumi.
New issue of International Journal of Žižek Studies, with articles by Matthew Sharpe, Luke John Howie, Nadir Z. Lahiji, Raoul Moati, and Roque Farran.
New issue of Cosmos & History: 'Transcending the Disciplinary Boundaries,' edited by Arran Gare. With articles by Frade, Scarfe, Velasco, McLaren, Will, Mackey, Semetsky, MacSuibhne, David-West, Lovat, Hourigan, Gare, and Horvath
Fibreculture Journal: '2.0: Before, during and after the event,' edited by Anna Munster and Andrew Murphie. With articles by Aden Evens, Ben Roberts, Ganaele Langlois, Fenwick McKelvey, Greg Elmer, and Kenneth Werbin, Ien Ang and Nayantara Pothen, Geert Lovink, Ned Rossiter and Ippolita, Michel Bauwens, Juan Martin Prada
'One Story High': A special issue of Fast Capitalism about the narrative, visual and auditory power of biography. Curated by Audrey Sprenger and Ashley Vaughan, it features new, short and never before seen works by anthropologist Katie Stewart, novelist and literary critic Amitava Kumar, sociologist Charles Lemert and filmmaker and folklorist John Cohen, as well as eleven other master storytellers.
OHP Celebrates Open Access Week
16 October, 2009
As part of the worldwide celebration of Open Access week (19-23 October, 2009), OHP Steering Group members are participating in events at their campuses.
- University of California at Irvine Libraries and partners hosts "Open Access: The Status & Success with Different Disciplines"
- UCLA Library and their campus partners are hosting a week of events for faculty, students and librarians.
- Victoria University of Wellington Library and English Department are also hosting a week long series of events
- Session 1 audio: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand (ogg 15MB. Get ogg player).
- Session 2 audio: OA Publishing Workshop (ogg 26MB. Get ogg player).
- Or, to find an event near you see the Open Access Directory's global list of events.
Philosophy Journal Converts to Open Access
5 October, 2009
Filozofski vestnik International, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of the Arts and Sciences, has converted to open access and become part of the Open Humanities Press collective.
“We are delighted to join OHP’s list of prestigious OA journals” said Jelica Šumič-Riha, a member of the Filozofski vestnik International editorial board. “I'm sure that the journal will thrive surrounded by such a stimulating collective.”
Filozofski vestnik International, the international edition of the Slovenian language journal, will continue to publish in print as well as OA. The editors explained their decision as a way of extending the small print runs that are subsidized by the Slovenian government. “The open access edition will reach a much wider audience than the paper versions. We see them as complementary,” said Šumič-Riha.
Five New Open Access Book Series
7 August, 2009
Open Humanities Press (OHP), in collaboration with the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), is launching five new open access book series, edited by senior members of the OHP Editorial Board. The series are:
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- Critical Climate Change
edited by Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook - Global Conversations
edited by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Liquid Books
edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall - New Metaphysics
edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour - Unidentified Theoretical Objects
edited by Wlad Godzich
Ours is an innovative distributed publishing model that thrives on the partners' complementary strengths: as a library publisher, SPO has infrastructure, scale, and experience in digital production. OHP, as an editorial collective of humanities scholars, provides editorial and peer review.
Authors will retain the copyrights for their works and have a choice of Creative Commons licenses. All of the OHP books will be freely available in full-text, digital editions and as reasonably-priced paperbacks. Read the press release (pdf).
