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<p>Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of </p>
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An Almanac of Resistance</h1>
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Bernd Herzogenrath and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo</span></p>
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all Open Humanities Press books, CONTRADICTionary is available
open access (= it can be downloaded for free): </span></p>
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<p>CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance is a collective
intervention into the politics of language at a time when words
themselves are being policed, erased, and weaponized. Emerging
from the suppression of terms like ‘diversity,’
‘intersectionality,’ and ‘climate crisis,’ the project reclaims
and expands this contested vocabulary through contributions from
over 100 scholars, artists, and activists worldwide. Each entry
interrogates how language shapes what can be known, said, and
done, while offering new, situated meanings rooted in lived
experience and critical inquiry. Neither dictionary nor manifesto
alone, CONTRADICTionary operates as a living archive of dissent,
embracing contradiction as method and multiplicity as strength. By
transforming banned words into sites of analysis, imagination, and
action, it challenges regimes of silence and invites readers to
actively participate in redefining the terms that govern
collective life.<br>
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<p>Editor Bios<br>
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<p>Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo is a Chilean researcher in Social Sciences
and Humanities linked to the University of los Lagos in Chile. Her
books include Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century:
Rethinking Culture, Common Struggles and Future Change (2023),
edited by Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo, Brian Willems and Slavoj Žižek;
Political Jouissance (2024) edited by Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo and
Slavoj Žižek, and José Luis Villacañas in Political Theory (2026).<br>
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Bernd Herzogenrath is a professor of American literature and
culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is
the author of An American Body|Politic: A Deleuzian Approach
(2010), and of many academic essays and articles. He is the editor
of various edited essay collections, including The Farthest Place:
The Music of John Luther Adams, Deleuze|Guattari & Ecology,
and media|matter: the materiality of media, matter as medium. His
latest publications include the collections The Films of Bill
Morrison: Aesthetics of the Archive (2017), Film as Philosophy
(2017), sonic thinking (2017), Practical Aesthetics (2020),
Spectral Futures (2026),and the multimedia international arts
project (c)ovid’s metamorphoses (meakusma 2023).</p>
<p>Series</p>
<p>CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance <span>is published as
part of the Seedbooks </span><span>series, edited by Sigi
Jöttkandt and Prudence Gibson:</span></p>
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href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/seedbooks/</a><br>
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