[spectre] The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought by David A. Collings - new open access book

[Gary Hall]

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of The 
Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought by David A. Collings.

Like all Open Humanities Press books, The Rubble of Cultureis available 
open access (it can be downloaded for free):

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-rubble-of-culture/

*Book description:*

Humanity now faces the possibility that it will become extinct over the 
next few decades or so. This is not simply a reality about the 
biological fate of the species; it also raises the prospect of thought’s 
own extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might 
disappear?

Thought’s possible disappearance shatters the assumption, at work across 
all the institutions and disciplines of the West, that one version or 
another of thought is enduring and will survive. As it turns out, no 
familiar practice rests on a secure ground; under the sign of the 
terminus - the prospect of humanity’s extinction - each one is shattered 
and undone. The cultural legacy becomes a field of rubble.

In dozens of short essays, this book moves through this field. It takes 
up a host of specific inheritances and traces how each is shattered and 
transformed by an extinct thought. It engages with religion, philosophy, 
history, literature, ethics, studies of political power and resistance, 
and depictions of humanity’s place in the nonhuman world. It reconsiders 
the emergence of capitalism and of biopower, the science of climate 
change, the import of mediation and technology, and philosophies of 
temporality. Moreover, it contends with many innovative waves of thought 
over the past two centuries, from German idealism to deconstruction, 
from psychoanalysis to queer theory, from decolonizing theory to 
Afropessimism, and from the critique of ideology to speculative realism. 
It concludes by assessing what it is like for thought, having confronted 
its extinction, to live on in this debris, to dance with its own oblivion.

*Author Bio*

David Collings is Professor of English at Bowdoin College, where he 
teaches courses in British Romanticism, critical theory, sexuality and 
gender, and environmental studies. He is the author of /Stolen Future, 
Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change/ at Open 
Humanities Press, as well as several books on the deformation of 
cultural practices in the era of British Romantic literature, including 
/Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment/ (1994), 
/Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny, 
c. 1780-1848/ (2009); /Disastrous Subjectivities: Romanticism, 
Modernity, and the Real/ (2019); and /Blank Splendor: Mere Existence in 
British Romanticism/ (2024). He co-edited /Queer Romanticisms/ with 
Michael O’Rourke (2004-5) and /Romanticism and Disaster/ with Jacques 
Khalip (2012). He has written articles on laboring with disaster, the 
poetics of the vanishing commons, the hospitality of oblivion, the 
undoing of the rainbow covenant, and economies of death. He has served 
as Chair of the Board of the North American Society for the Study of 
Romanticism.

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*Series*

The Rubble of Cultureis published as part of the CCC2 Irreversibility 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility> 
series, edited by Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility/


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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
https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/

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