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<p class="MsoNormal">Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce
the publication of two new open access books: <br>
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Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the
Post-truth Era, edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/</a></p>
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Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the
Anthropocene: Archive, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan
Reid, Pia van Gelder and Astrida Neimanis:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial-propositions-for-hacking-the-anthropocene/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial-propositions-for-hacking-the-anthropocene/</a><br>
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<p>Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the
Post-truth Era, edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Fabricating Publics is published in our DATA
Browser series, which is edited by Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa: <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/data-browser/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/data-browser/</a><br>
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<p>Editor Bios</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<br>
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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.<br
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<p class="MsoNormal">Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for
Hacking the Anthropocene, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan
Reid, Pia van Gelder and Astrida Neimanis</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for
Hacking the Anthropocene is an OHP Labs Seedbook: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/labs/seedbooks/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/labs/seedbooks/</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Editor Bios<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.’<br>
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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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Other recent titles from Open Humanities Press
include: <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility
in Object-Oriented Ontology by Gabriel Yoran: <a
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href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">La magie réaliste: objets, ontologie et
causalité by<b> </b>Timothy Morton: <a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">hyposubjects: on becoming human<b> </b>by
Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer: <a
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href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a
Metacosmics by Daniel Ross: <a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/</a>
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A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain by Gary
Hall: <a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury</a>
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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies by Winnie
Soon and Geoff Cox: <a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/</a></p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Journal article (open access): 'Pluriversal Socialism - The Very Idea': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/126">http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/126</a>
Video: 'Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism: Gary Hall in Conversation with Carolina Rito About A Stubborn Fury: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU</a>
Podcasts: 'Writing Against Elitism with "A Stubborn Fury"': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://anchor.fm/aposthumanities/episodes/S2E6-Gary-Hall-Writing-against-elitism-with-A-Stubborn-Fury-e166bip">https://anchor.fm/aposthumanities/episodes/S2E6-Gary-Hall-Writing-against-elitism-with-A-Stubborn-Fury-e166bip</a>
'The Uberfication of the University - with Gary Hall': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://soundcloud.com/user-230862454/the-uberfication-of-the-university">https://soundcloud.com/user-230862454/the-uberfication-of-the-university</a>
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