Announcing The Nabokov Effect

Feb 14, 2024

The Nabokov Effect

Another Nabokov stands at the 21st century, overleaping the decades to resurface when the signifier shimmers in a strange new light. To read Nabokov in humanity’s endgame is to depose our central myth of Nabokov-the-Author, even as it opens up broader questions concerning our ability to read him or, indeed any writer, today.

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Announcing The Rubble of Culture

Oct 18, 2023

The Rubble of Culture

Humanity now faces the possibility that it will become extinct over the next few decades or so. This is not simply a reality about the biological fate of the species; it also raises the prospect of thought’s own extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might disappear?

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Announcing a new subseries, The Nethercene

Aug 18, 2023

The Nethercene: Ecocide and Inscription

A subseries of CCC2:Irreversibility, The Nethercene opens the space of provocation for readers by seizing upon and opening problematics of the inscriptive forces and demons before the screen projections of ‘consciousness’ coalesces - the netherworlds on which these spectacles depend.

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Announcing Ecological Rewriting

Jun 09, 2023

Ecological Rewriting

Led by Gabriela Méndez Cota, this group of nine (re)writers annotate and remix The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness by the philosopher Michael Marder and the artist Anaïs Tondeur.

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Announcing A History of Asking

May 18, 2023

A History of Asking

Asking is one of the simplest and most familiar of human actions, and has a right to be thought of as single most powerful and most variously cohering form of social-symbolic gesture.

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Announcing Articulating Media

Mar 07, 2023

Articulating Media

Articulating Media offers new approaches to the writing of technology and the technologies of writing by twinning an investigation of language with an attention to location.

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Announcing Data Farms

Jan 30, 2023

Data Farms

What is at stake in naming data centres as data farms? These installations are essentially hangars packed with computers. They congregate servers, switches and wires that facilitate the storage, processing and transmission of data in high volumes and at fast speeds.

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Announcing a new Living/Liquid book collaboration

Dec 19, 2022

Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers

Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers explores the rewriting of books in the Open Humanities Press (OHP) back catalogue.

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Announcing Geological Filmmaking

Oct 25, 2022

Geological Filmmaking

Every film image is geological. As a technical medium derived from the metals and minerals extracted from the earth, every moving image is materially embedded in the world it records.

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Announcing Volumetric Regimes

Oct 01, 2022

Volumetric Regimes

How does cyborg-ness participate in the presentation and representation of so-called bodies?

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