[spectre] CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance - new open access (free) book

[Gary Hall]

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of


  CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance

/edited by/Bernd Herzogenrath and Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo

Like all Open Humanities Press books, CONTRADICTionary is available open 
access (= it can be downloaded for free):

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/contradictionary/

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.

Editor Bios

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).

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).

Series

CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance is published as part of the 
Seedbooks series, edited by Sigi Jöttkandt and Prudence Gibson:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/seedbooks/

Sigi, Gary, David, Joanna


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