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<p>Open Humanities Press is delighted to announce the
publication of </p>
<h4 class="header-anchor-post"><em><a
href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mundus-immundus/">Mundus
Immundus: Unworlding, Afterlife, and the Cinema</a></em></h4>
<p>by Jens Andermann</p>
<p>How is our vanishing world experienced and cathected into
affective circuits of fear and enjoyment, mourning and
resistance? To consider what Hannah Arendt calls
Entweltlichung, or loss of world, this book turns to cinema as
an alternate form of thinking (in) the present. Mundus
immundus — a central figure in Augustinian theology — offers a
key for addressing the clashes and entanglements between the
two histories that emplot our catastrophic present: the
annihilation, in real time, of a habitable planet, and the
becoming-fascist of late-capitalist subjectivities as our way
of coexisting with and of enjoying the world’s unworlding.<br>
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But rather than to industrial cinema’s apocalyptic end-tales
and their grand allegories of collapse and resurgence of
extractive capitalism and white supremacy, Andermann turns to
the neo-regionalist cinemas of the Global South to study
unworlding and its afterlives as an interruption or withdrawal
of cinematic worldmaking, forcing viewers to “stay with the
trouble.” In dialogue with films by Pedro Costa, Lucrecia
Martel, Kléber Mendonça Filho, Laura Citarella, Flora Gomes,
Lisandro Alonso, and Adirley Queirós, among others, Mundus
Immundus inquires about disaster by invoking some of its most
illustrious names: Capitalocene (the relationship of mutual
devastation that subsumes bodies and environments), Negrocene
(the racialized denial of world that has sustained capitalism
since its origins), and Thanatocene (the imbrication between
technologies of war and extraction, and of these with forms of
spectacle and enjoyment founded on destructiveness). But the
book also explores the poetics and politics of afterlife — of
survivance, re-existence, re-becoming Indigenous — and their
manifestations in contemporary cinemas of re-enactment and
re-performance.<br>
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Author Bio<br>
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Jens Andermann is David B. Kriser Professor in the Humanities
at New York University. He is an editor of the Journal of
Latin American Cultural Studies and of the book series
SubAtlantic: Latin American, Caribbean, and Luso-African
Ecologies (De Gruyter-Brill). He writes about art, literature,
film, architecture and politics in Latin America and
Luso-Africa. His books in English include Entranced Earth:
Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape (Northwestern
University Press, 2023), New Argentine Cinema (I. B. Tauris,
2011), and The Optic of the State. Visuality and Power in
Argentina and Brazil (Pittsburgh 2007), and as co-editor,
Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics (De
Gruyter, 2023); Natura. Environmental Aesthetics After
Landscape (Diaphanes, 2018), and Latin American Cultural
Studies: A Reader (Routledge, 2018).</p>
<p>Series</p>
<p><em>Mundus immundus</em><span> is published as part of the </span><a
href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility/">CCC2
Irreversibility</a><span> series, edited by Tom Cohen and
Claire Colebrook.</span></p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility</a>
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