<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" class="ContentPasted0">Open
Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of
<i class="ContentPasted0">Ecological Rewriting: Situated
Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium,
</i>edited by Gabriela Méndez Cota. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" class="ContentPasted0"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" class="ContentPasted0">Like
all Open Humanities Press books,
<i class="ContentPasted0">Ecological Rewriting</i> is available
open access (it can be downloaded for free):
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a
href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/"
target="_blank" title="Original URL:
https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/.
Click or tap if you trust this link." class="ContentPasted0"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/</span></a><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" class="ContentPasted0">Book
description </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Ecological
Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium</span></i><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"> is the first book in
the </span><a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/liquid-books/"
class="ContentPasted0"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers</span></a><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"> series. Supported by
the </span><a href="https://www.copim.ac.uk/"
class="ContentPasted0"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">COPIM</span></a><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"> project, it is the
creation of a collective of researchers, students and
technologists from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico
City. Led by Gabriela Méndez Cota, this group of nine
(re)writers annotate and remix
<em class="ContentPasted0">The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of
an Exploded Consciousness</em> by the philosopher Michael
Marder and the artist Anaïs Tondeur (originally published in
OHP’s Critical Climate Change series) to produce what is a new
book in its own right – albeit one that comments upon and
engages with the original. <br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"><br>
</span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman", serif;margin:0cm">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"
class="ContentPasted0">In the Mexican context, experiments with
art, writing and technology have a history that is tied less to
academic publishing or avant-garde scholarship and more to
community-building and grassroots organising. </span><span
class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color:
rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="ContentPasted0">It is important,
then, that in creating
</span></span><em><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(102,
102, 102);" class="ContentPasted0">Ecological Rewriting</span></em><span
class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color:
rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="ContentPasted0"> the collective
led by Méndez Cota</span></span><em><span style="font-size:
14pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="ContentPasted0">
</span></em><span class="contentpasted1"><span style="font-size:
14pt; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="ContentPasted0">are
inspired by locally influential Cristina Rivera Garza’s
theorization of re-writing as dis-appropriation, rather than
appropriation of another’s work. </span></span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">Alongside
philosophical concepts such as Jean-Luc Nancy’s ‘literary
communism’, Rivera Garza’s ethical poetics is here turned into
the proposition that the reuse of open access materials does not
need to be understood as appropriation or reappropriation of
‘knowledge’. Instead, it can be conceived as a creative exercise
in ‘unworking’ or ‘disappropriating’ academic authorship which
responds to
<i class="ContentPasted0">The Chernobyl Herbarium’s</i>
invitation to think through (vegetal) exposure and fragility.
Thus, the authors challenge property and propriety by creating
singular, fragmentary accounts of Mexico’s relation with
Chernobyl. In the process they explore ways of bearing witness
to environmental devastation in its human and non-human scales,
including the little-known history of nuclear power and the
anti-nuclear movement in Mexico – which they intersect with an
experimental history of plant biodiversity. The resulting book
constitutes both a practical reflection on plant-thinking and a
disruptive intervention into the conventions of academic
writing. </span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman", serif;margin:0cm">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman", serif">
<i><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">Ecological
Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium</span></i><span
style="font-size:14.0pt" class="ContentPasted0"> exists as an
online version (<a
href="https://doi.org/10.21428/9ca7392d.07cdfb82"
target="_blank" title="Original URL:
https://doi.org/10.21428/9ca7392d.07cdfb82. Click or tap if
you trust this link." class="ContentPasted0
moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.21428/9ca7392d.07cdfb82</a>)
and as a print version (forthcoming). The online version is an
experimental publication with links to the original sections of
<i class="ContentPasted0">The Chernobyl Herbarium</i> that the
writers responded to, so that the reader can follow an
associative trail between the two publications.<span
style="color: black;">
<br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Authors </span></b></p>
<p
style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman", serif">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:ES-MX"
class="ContentPasted0" lang="ES-MX">Gabriela Méndez Cota,
Etelvina Bernal
<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="ContentPasted0">Méndez</span>,
Sandra Hernández Reyes, Sandra Loyola Guízar, Fernanda Rodríguez
González, Yareni Monteón López, Deni Garciamoreno Becerril,
Nidia Rosales Moreno, Xóchitl Arteaga Villamil, Carolina Cuevas
Parra</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" class="ContentPasted0"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" class="ContentPasted0">Editor
Bio
<br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",
serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" class="ContentPasted0">Gabriela
Méndez Cota is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of
Philosophy at Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México.
Inspired by deconstruction, psychoanalysis and technoscience
feminism, her research explores the subjective and ethical
dimensions of technological/political controversies in specific
contexts. Her books include
<i class="ContentPasted0">Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology
and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico</i> (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2016). Among other places, her work has appeared in
<i class="ContentPasted0">New Formations</i>, <i
class="ContentPasted0">Media Theory</i>,
<i class="ContentPasted0">Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary
Journal, </i>and the
<i class="ContentPasted0">Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural
Identities</i> (2020). With Rafico Ruiz, she co-edits the open
access journal of culture and theory, Culture Machine (</span><a
href="http://culturemachine.net/" target="_blank"
class="ContentPasted0"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">culturemachine.net)</span></a><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB" class="ContentPasted0">.
Between 2019 and 2021 she led a practice-based educational
initiative on critical/feminist/intersectional perspectives of
open access, which included a collaboration with the COPIM
project led by the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry
University, UK, and resulted in a collective rewriting of <i
class="ContentPasted0">The Chernobyl Herbarium</i> (Open
Humanities Press, 2015). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm">
<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Series </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm">
<em><span style="font-size:14.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">Ecological
Re-writing</span></em><em><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-style:normal"
class="ContentPasted0"> is published as part of the
</span></em><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Combinatorial Books:
Gathering Flowers series, edited by Janneke Adema, Simon Bowie,
Gary Hall and Rebekka Kiesewetter: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman", serif;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/liquid-books/"
class="ContentPasted0 moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/liquid-books/</a>
<br>
</span></p>
<p></p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">
--
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="https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/">https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/</a>
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Mastodon: @garyhall@hcommons.social
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
Latest:
Journal article (open access) 'Defund Culture': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/defund-culture">https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/defund-culture</a>
Book review: ‘Review of Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage' by Matthew Kirschenbaum: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721475">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721475</a>
Blog post: 'Invest in the De-liberalisation of Society': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/?SSScrollPosition=0">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/?SSScrollPosition=0</a>
</pre>
</body>
</html>