[spectre] Fabricating Publics and Hacking the Anthropocene: two new open access books from Open Humanities Press
Gary Hall
mail at garyhall.info
Tue Dec 7 14:11:59 CET 2021
Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new
open access books:
Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era,
edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/
Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene:
Archive, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and
Astrida Neimanis:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial-propositions-for-hacking-the-anthropocene/
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Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era,
edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito
Fabricating Publics explores how cultural practitioners and institutions
perceive their role in the post-truth era, by repositioning their work
in relation to the notion of the “public”. The book addresses the
multiple challenges posed for artists, curators and cultural activists
by the conditions of post-factuality: Do cultural institutions have the
practical means and the ethical authority to fight against the
proliferation of “alternative facts” in politics, as well as within all
aspects of our lives? What narratives of dissent are cultural
practitioners developing, and how do they choose to communicate them?
Could new media technologies still be considered as instruments of
democratizing culture, or have they been irrevocably associated with
‘empty’ populism? Do “counter-publics” exist and, if yes, how are they
formed? In the end, is “truth” a notion that could be reclaimed through
contemporary culture? With contributions by Charlie Gere, Christine
Ross, David M. Berry, Emily Rosamond, Forensic Architecture, Gregory
Sholette, Mieke Bal, Nat Muller, Ferry Biedermann, Natalie Bookchin,
Alexandra Juhasz, Ramon Bloomberg, Santiago Zabala, Steven Henry Madoff,
Terry Smith, and UBERMORGEN.
Fabricating Publics is published in our DATA Browser series, which is
edited by Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/data-browser/
Editor Bios
Bill Balaskas is an artist, theorist, and educator, whose research is
located at the intersection of politics, digital media, and contemporary
visual culture. He is an Associate Professor and Director of Research,
Business and Innovation at the School of Art and Architecture of
Kingston University, London. His work has been widely exhibited in the
UK and internationally. He has received awards and grants from the
European Investment Bank Institute; Comité International d’Histoire de
l’Art (CIHA); Open Society Foundations; European Cultural Foundation;
the Australian National University; and the Association for Art History
(UK), amongst others. He is Editor of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac
(MIT Press), co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial
Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg Press, 2020), and of
Architectures of Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020). Originally
trained as an economist, he holds a PhD in Critical Writing in Art and
Design from the Royal College of Art, London.
Carolina Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the
Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), Coventry
University, UK, and lead of the Critical Practices research strand. She
is a researcher and curator whose work explores ‘the curatorial’ as an
investigative practice, expanding practice-based research in the fields
of curating, visual cultures, and cultural studies. Rito is Executive
Board Member of the Midlands Higher Education & Culture Forum (MHECF);
Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Universidade
NOVA Lisboa; Founding Editor of The Contemporary Journal; and Chair of
the Collaborative Research Working Group for the MHECF. Rito is the
co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for
Collaborative Research (Sternberg Press, 2020); Architectures of
Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020); and editor of the “On
Translations” and “Critical Pedagogies” issues (The Contemporary
Journal, 2018–2020). From 2017 to 2019, she was Head of Public
Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary. She holds a PhD in
Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene,
edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and Astrida
Neimanis
If the Anthropocene heralds both a new age of human supremacy and an
out-of-control Nature ushering in a premature apocalypse, this living
book insists such assumptions must be hacked. Reperforming selections
from three live events staged in 2016, 2017 and 2018 in Sydney,
Australia, Hacking the Anthropocene offers a series of propositions –
argument, augury, poetry, elegy, essay, image, video – that suggest
alternative entry points for understanding shifting relationships
between humans and nature. Scholars and artists from environmental
humanities and related areas of social, political and cultural studies
interrogate the assumption of the human “we” as a uniform actor, and
offer a timely reminder of the entanglements of race, sexuality, gender,
coloniality, class, and species in all of our earthly terraformings.
Here, Anthropocene politics are both urgent and playful, and the
personal is also planetary.
Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene
is an OHP Labs Seedbook:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/labs/seedbooks/
Editor Bios
Jennifer Mae Hamilton lives on unceded Anaiwan Country, and is a
researcher, teacher and community organiser. Her interdisciplinary
research explores weather, affect and housework, and, with Astrida
Neimanis, co-founded COMPOSTING Feminisms and Environmental Humanities.
She is a lecturer in English at the University of New England.
Astrida Neimanis is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental
Humanities at UBC Okanagan campus on unceded Syilx territory in Kelowna,
Canada. She is co-coordindator of COMPOSTING Feminisms (with Jennifer
Hamilton), a member of the Weathering Collective, and director of The
Feel-ed Lab. She also writes about bodies, water, and weather.
Sue Reid is a creative researcher, artist, writer and lawyer, working
and living on Gadigal and Yugambeh lands. She is a member of the Sydney
Environment Institute; a researcher with The Seed Box; and a PhD
candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at The
University of Sydney—her thesis is titled, ‘Imagining Justice with the
Ocean.’
Pia van Gelder is a researcher, historian and artist at the School of
Art & Design at the Australian National University. Her work
investigates historical and contemporary conceptions of energies and how
these shape our relationship with technology, bodies and our environment.
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Other recent titles from Open Humanities Press include:
The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented
Ontology by Gabriel Yoran:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/
La magie réaliste: objets, ontologie et causalité by**Timothy Morton:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/
hyposubjects: on becoming human**by Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/
Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics by Daniel Ross:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/
A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain by Gary Hall:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury
Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies by Winnie Soon and
Geoff Cox:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures
http://www.garyhall.info
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