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Announcing new and forthcoming academic titles from LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA BOOKS www.litterariapragensia.com ______________________________________________________ AVANT-POST The Avant-Garde Under "post-" Conditions ed. Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-123-7 (paperback). 300pp. Published: September 2006. http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/avant_post.html Avant-Post engages the question of whether or not avant-garded practice remains viable under the prevailing conditions of a whole series of "post-" ideologies, from Post-Modernism and Post- Structuralism, to Post-Historicism, Post-Humanism and Post-Ideology itself. Contributors include Johanna Drucker, Michael S. Begnal, Lisa Jarnot, Ann Vickery, Christian Bök, Robert Archambeau, Mairead Byrne, R.M. Berry, Trey Strecker, Keston Sutherland, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Robert Sheppard, Bonita Rhoads, Vadim Erent, Laurent Milesi, Esther Milne ... ______________________________________________________ TIME REFIGURED Myths, Foundation Texts and Imagined Communities eds. Martin Prochazka & Ondrej Pilny ISBN 80-7308-102-4 (paperback). 383pp. Publication date: November 2005 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/time_refigured.html Focused on the myths and mythologies of European cultural history, this volume seeks to address the present and past functions of foundation texts in the evolution of the European idea. One of the specific objectives of this volume is to reconsider, in the context of ongoing European expansion and integration, the functionalist approach of Benedict Anderson, according to whom "imagined communities ... are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined." The common denominator of each of the essays contained in this volume is the problem of the discontinuity of time in relation to tradition, cultural and individual memory, as well as in relation to historical and literary narratives. Time becomes "the locus of its own reflexivity: it is self- temporalized. It undergoes endless reiteration within itself, and needs a semantics which sets valid accents for specific moments." ______________________________________________________ GIACOMO JOYCE Envoys of the Other eds. Clare Wallace & Louis Armand New Revised and Expanded edition ISBN 80-239-5046-0 (paperback). 440pp. Published: June 2006. http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/giacomo_joyce.html Of all James Joyce's extant works, Giacomo Joyce is the one which has least received what is arguably its due. This book, the first collection of essays devoted entirely to Joyce's last published work, is an attempt to place the critical reception of this text within the larger framework of current Joyce studies. Bringing together the work of some of Joyce's major commentators, Envoys of the Other is a timely volume of significant worth to any scholar or student of James Joyce and twentieth-century literary modernism. Contributors include Fritz Senn, Vicki Mahaffey, Murray McArthur, Gayatri Spivak, Michel Delville, Kevin Nolan, Joseph Valente, Clare Wallace, John McCourt, Sheldon Brivic, M.E. Roughley, Renzo Crivelli, Richard Brown, Louis Armand, Helene Cixous, Fritz Senn ______________________________________________________ MIND FACTORY ed. Louis Armand ISBN 80-7308-104-0. (paperback) 340pp. Published: December 2005 http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/mind_factory.html Mind Factory explores a mosaic of ideas and practices currently surrounding the question of cognition, mind, literacy, autopoiesis and tele-technologies, and how these define a contemporary "human condition." Essays included in this volume address a range of subjects from the Abu Ghraib torture photographs, brain implants and behavioural control, to the possibility of quantum minds and machine intelligence, to the technicity of faith, sintonic desire, ideoplastic materialisation and psychic geographies. Contributors include Slavoj Zizek, Ben Goertzel, Ivan Havel, Louis Armand, Donald F. Theall, Arthur Bradley, Simon Critchley & Tom McCarthy, Darren Tofts, McKenzie Wark, Gregory L. Ulmer, Andrew Mitchell, Arthur & Marilouise Kroker, Zoe Beloff, Jane Lewty ______________________________________________________ --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine