Open access monographs

[Sigi Jottkandt <sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org>]

Dear friends,

We are delighted to announce the latest publication in the Critical Climate Chaos: Irreversibility series: 

Mundus Immundus: Unworlding, afterlife, and the cinema by Jens Andermann. 

How is our vanishing world experienced and cathected into affective circuits of fear and enjoyment, mourning and resistance? To consider what Hannah Arendt calls Entweltlichung, or loss of world, this book turns to cinema as an alternate form of thinking (in) the present. Mundus immundus — a central figure in Augustinian theology — offers a key for addressing the clashes and entanglements between the two histories that emplot our catastrophic present: the annihilation, in real time, of a habitable planet, and the becoming-fascist of late-capitalist subjectivities as our way of coexisting with and of enjoying the world’s unworlding.

Available open access and in print from:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mundus-immundus/

Best wishes,

Sigi, Gary, Joanna, David