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We are pleased to announce the release of two new titles in Open
Humanities Press’ Immediations series:
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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/
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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/
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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--------------------------------------------------------