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[OA-monographs] In Catastrophic Times & Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
- From: Sigi Jottkandt <sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org>
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- Subject: [OA-monographs] In Catastrophic Times & Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 17:03:30 +1100
Dear friends of OHP,
We're delighted to announce two stunning new books for the new year:
Isabelle Stengers' In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/in-catastrophic-times/
Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller's Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/twilight-of-the-anthropocene-idols/
Like all the OHP books, these are freely available for download from Open Humanities Press and for sale through online distributors. Isabelle Stengers' book was co-published with our Radical OA partner, meson press, which is run by members of the Hybrid Publishing Lab at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. You'll find them at http://meson.press/
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Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
“It didn’t take long for expert deconstructors Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller to do their duty once again and begin to dream the Anthropocene. Up until now, many of us have simply been in data dump mode, the way global warming science delivers its pronouncements from behind a desk: Six! One hundred thousand! Ninety seven percent! Gigaton! Forty! The scientist herself needs to have cared enough to seek the global warming data that accidentally puts us in all kinds of shutdown. The kind of thinking aloud that these fantastic writers do is logically prior to being ready to receive data. Which makes you wonder: Maybe you should have read this years ago.”
We're delighted to announce two stunning new books for the new year:
Isabelle Stengers' In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/in-catastrophic-times/
Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller's Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/twilight-of-the-anthropocene-idols/
Like all the OHP books, these are freely available for download from Open Humanities Press and for sale through online distributors. Isabelle Stengers' book was co-published with our Radical OA partner, meson press, which is run by members of the Hybrid Publishing Lab at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. You'll find them at http://meson.press/
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Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
“It didn’t take long for expert deconstructors Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller to do their duty once again and begin to dream the Anthropocene. Up until now, many of us have simply been in data dump mode, the way global warming science delivers its pronouncements from behind a desk: Six! One hundred thousand! Ninety seven percent! Gigaton! Forty! The scientist herself needs to have cared enough to seek the global warming data that accidentally puts us in all kinds of shutdown. The kind of thinking aloud that these fantastic writers do is logically prior to being ready to receive data. Which makes you wonder: Maybe you should have read this years ago.”
Timothy Morton – author of Realist Magic
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In Catastrophic Times
The effects of global warming have a cumulative impact, and it is not a matter of a crisis that will “pass” before everything goes back to “normal.” Our governments are totally incapable of dealing with the situation. Economic warfare obliges them to stick to the goal of irresponsible, even criminal, economic growth, whatever the cost. It is no surprise that people were so struck by the catastrophe in New Orleans. The response of the authorities – to abandon the poor whilst the rich were able to take shelter – is a symbol of the coming barbarism.
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In Catastrophic Times
The effects of global warming have a cumulative impact, and it is not a matter of a crisis that will “pass” before everything goes back to “normal.” Our governments are totally incapable of dealing with the situation. Economic warfare obliges them to stick to the goal of irresponsible, even criminal, economic growth, whatever the cost. It is no surprise that people were so struck by the catastrophe in New Orleans. The response of the authorities – to abandon the poor whilst the rich were able to take shelter – is a symbol of the coming barbarism.
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- [OA-monographs] In Catastrophic Times & Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, Sigi Jottkandt, 01/02/2016
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