From: Gary Hall [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 January 2014 10:31
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Subject: 3 new free OA books: Essays on Extinction, and Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age
Open Humanities Press (http://openhumanitiespress.org/) is delighted to announce the publication of three new open access books:
A double volume set, Essays on Extinction by Claire Colebrook: Vol 1, Death of the PostHuman; and Vol. 2, Sex After Life;
Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age by C. Jon Delogu.
Death of the PostHuman by Claire Colebrook undertakes a series of critical encounters with the legacy of what had come to be known as 'theory,' and its contemporary supposedly post-human aftermath. There can be no redemptive post-human future in which the myopia and anthropocentrism of the species finds an exit and manages to emerge with ecology and life. At the same time, what has come to be known as the human - despite its normative intensity - can provide neither foundation nor critical lever in the Anthropocene epoch. Death of the PostHuman argues for a twenty-first century deconstruction of ecological and seemingly post-human futures.
http://openhumanitiespress.org/essays-on-extinction-vol1.html
Sex After Life by Claire Colebrook aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and critical theories. Arguing against a notion of the queer as counter-normative, Sex After Life appeals to the concept of life as a philosophical problem. Life is neither a material ground nor a generative principle, but can nevertheless offer itself for new forms of problem formation that exceed the all too human logics of survival.
http://openhumanitiespress.org/essays-on-extinction-vol2.html
Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age by C. Jon Delogu is an introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and his monumental two-volume study Democracy in America (1835, 1840) that pays particular attention to the critical conversation around Tocqueville and contemporary democracy. It attempts to help us think better about democracy, and also perhaps to live better, in the Internet Age.
http://openhumanitiespress.org/tocqueville-and-democracy-in-the-internet-age.html
Like all OHP books, these are freely available to read online.
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Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Visiting Professor, Hybrid Publishing Lab, Leuphana University http://www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/forschung-projekte/alle/hybrid-publishing-lab.html
Website http://www.garyhall.info
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