[spectre] Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities - special issue of JEP

[Gary Hall]

We are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the 
Journal of Electronic Publishing: "Disrupting the Humanities: Towards 
Posthumanities", edited by Janneke Adema and Gary Hall.

The issue contains video-articles by Johanna Drucker, Mark Amerika, Erin 
Manning, Monika Bakke, Endre Dányi, Lesley Gourlay, Silvio Lorusso, 
Niamh Moore, Karen Newman, SØren Pold, Craig Saper, Sarah Kember, and 
Iris van der Tuin.

It is available for free, open access, CC-BY, here:
http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

Contents

1  Maria Bonn, A Note From JEP

2  Janneke Adema and Gary Hall, Posthumanities: The Dark Side of “The 
Dark Side of the Digital”

Adema and Hall have written a 10,000 word opening essay, discussing the 
conceptual premises that underly this special issue. Engaging with 
various discourses around the digital humanities, the essay outlines the 
experimental mode in which the videos included in the issue have been 
edited - as well as pointing to the idea of posthuman posthumanities.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0019.201

PART ONE – Creating Posthumanities: Disrupting Humanities Methodologies
3   Monika Bakke, Deep Time Environments: Art And The Materiality Of 
Life Beyond The Human
4   Lesley Gourlay, Posthuman Texts: Nonhuman Actors, Mediators and 
Technologies of Inscription
5   Niamh Moore, “Humanist” Methods in a “More-than-Human” World
6   Iris van der Tuin, Reading Diffractive Reading: Where and When Does 
Diffraction Happen?

PART TWO – Performing Posthumanities: Disrupting Humanities Aesthetics
7   Erin Manning, 10 Propositions for Research-Creation
8   SØren Pold, Ink After Print: Literary Interface Criticism
9   Johanna Drucker, Diagrammatic Form and Performative Materiality
10  Silvio Lorusso, The Post-Digital Publishing Archive: An Inventory of 
Speculative Strategies

PART THREE – Circulating Posthumanities: Disrupting Humanities Institution
11  Sarah Kember, At Risk? The Humanities and the Future of Academic 
Publishing
12  Endre Dányi, Samizdat Lessons: Three Dimensions of the Politics of 
Self-Publishing
13  Craig Saper, Disrupting Scholarship
14  Mark Amerika, Glitch Ontology (A Video Performance)
15  Karen Newman, The West Midlands as an ‘Electronic Super Highway’: 
BOM and the Emergence of New Art Infrastructures


-- 
Gary Hall, http://www.garyhall.info
Professor of Media and Performing Arts, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org

NEW BOOKS:
Pirate Philosophy: For A Digital Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2016)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/pirate-philosophy

The Uberfication of the University (U of Minnesota Press, 2016)
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-uberfication-of-the-university
Open access version available here:
https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/4b7671d5-371f-438b-83c7-9275935550f8/1/