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<p>Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of
The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought by David A.
Collings. <br>
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Roman",serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Like
all Open Humanities Press books, </span>The Rubble of Culture<span
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is available open access (it can be downloaded for free): <br>
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<p><b><span
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<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p><b><span
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New Roman",serif;
color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Author Bio</span></b></p>
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 <em>Stolen
Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change</em>
at Open Humanities Press, as well as several books on the
deformation of cultural practices in the era of British Romantic
literature, including <em>Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of
Cultural Dismemberment</em> (1994), <em>Monstrous Society:
Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny, c. 1780-1848</em>
(2009); <em>Disastrous Subjectivities: Romanticism, Modernity, and
the Real</em> (2019); and <em>Blank Splendor: Mere Existence in
British Romanticism</em> (2024). He co-edited <em>Queer
Romanticisms</em> with Michael O’Rourke (2004-5) and <em>Romanticism
and Disaster</em> 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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<p><b><span
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"Times New
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<p>The Rubble of Culture<span
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Roman",serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
</span>is published as part of the <a
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility">CCC2
Irreversibility</a> series, edited by Tom Cohen and Claire
Colebrook:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/low-latencies/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility/</a><br>
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