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We are pleased to announce the release of two new titles in Open Humanities Press’ Immediations series: *** Brian Massumi's /The Principle of Unrest/ explores the contemporary implications of an activist philosophy, pivoting on the issue of movement. Movement is understood not simply in spatial terms but as qualitative transformation: becoming, emergence, event. Available for free download at: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-principle-of-unrest/ *** / / /Nocturnal Fabulations/Fabulations/ nocturnes by Érik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette and Adam Szymanski, with an Introduction by Erin Manning. This collective, bilingual project is animated by a shared curiosity in the pragmatics of fabulation and its speculative gesture of bringing forth a people to come. In an encounter with Apichatpong’s cinematic dreamscape, the concepts of ecology, vitality and opacity emerge to articulate an ethos of fabulation that deframes experience, recomposes subjectivity and unfixes time. Available for free download at: English: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/nocturnal-fabulations/ French: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabulations-nocturnes/ *** We are also pleased to announce the latest book in the Technographies series: Steven Connor's /Dream Machines/ /Dream Machines/ is a history of imaginary machines and the ways in which machines come to be imagined. It considers seven different kinds of speculative, projected or impossible machines: machines for teleportation, dream-production, sexual pleasure and medical treatment and cure, along with ‘influencing machines’, invisibility machines and perpetual motion machines. 'This is an engaging and imaginative exploration of various forms of writing, thinking, and fantasizing about dream machines, an endlessly fertile topic probed here from just about every possible angle … a major intervention into current understandings of technology, literature, and identity.' Matthew Rubery – Queen Mary University of London '… a deeply original contribution to the history and philosophy of technology and the cultural history of the imagination …' Laura Salisbury – University of Exeter Available for free download at: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/dream-machines/ With our best wishes, Sigi, David, Gary -- Gary Hall, http://www.garyhall.info Professor of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University Director of Open Humanities Press: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org RECENT: 'Posthumanities: The Dark Side of "The Dark Side of the Digital"' (with Janneke Adema): http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0019.201 Pirate Philosophy: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------