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3 April, 2010

International Journal of Žižek Studies, 4. 1 (2010): Žižek and Ideology, edited by Heiko Feldner and Fabio Vighi, with essays by Rex Butler, Jodi Dean, Jan Jagodzinski, Todd McGowan, Ricardo Camargo, Étienne Poulard and Daniel Hourigan.

From the editorial: "Nothing confirms the relevance of Žižek's critique of ideology more than the ferocious speed with which the deepest crisis in the history of capitalism has been naturalized and normalized within the short space of less than a year." Read more ...

New issue of Film-Philosophy 14.1 (2010): edited by David Sorfa and Greg Tuck with contributions by Randall Halle, Frances L. Restuccia, Bruno Lessard, Gregory Minissale, Naomi Merritt, Patricia Pisters, Julian Haladyn, Miriam Jordan.

New issue of Postcolonial Text, 5.2 (2009) : with articles by Olivia C Harrison, Khondlo Mtshali, Lindsey Moore, Masood Ashraf Raja, Bidisha Banerjee, Rachid Belghiti and Savitri Ashok.

Recent Issues

15 February, 2010

New issue of Culture Machine: Creative Media, edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska, with texts by Rowan Wilken, Gary Hall, Clare Birchall, Peter Woodbridge, Nina Sellars, Eleni Ikoniadou, Patrick Crogan, David Penny and Federica Frabetti.

New issue of Image & Narrative: Chris Marker (Part II) with essays by Peter Kravanja, Christa Blümlinger, Sarah Cooper, Matthias De Groof, Sylvain Dreyer, Sarah French, Adrian Martin and Susana S. Martins.

Special issue of International Journal of Žižek Studies: Žižek in Tehran, ed. Nathan Coombs, Vol 3.4 (2009) with articles by Reza Afshar, Reid Kane, Hamid Dabashi, Hossein Mousavi and Nathan Coombs, Christopher Cutrone,Carl Robert Packman, Sina Badiei and Luke Evans.

Also, latest issue of Postcolonial Text: 'On Things Fall Apart' with contributions by Uzoma Esonwanne, Neil ten Kortenaa, Susie O'Brien, Chelva Kanaganayakam. Also includes articles by Ashton Nichols, Hugh Hodges, and Daria Tunca.

This Month's Featured Journal

25 January, 2010

The Fibreculture Journal announces a call for papers: "Trans" - Transversals, Transduction, Transmateriality. Issue editors: Adrian Mackenzie, Andrew Murphie and Mitchell Whitelaw:

'We seek articles, theoretical or analytic, critical and/or propositional, that engage with contemporary media worlds within the parameters (or "conceptual parametrics") of three concepts: transduction, transmateriality, transversality.' Read more...

Out now: Issue 15, 2009: What Now?: The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix:

From the editorial: 'It became a minor phenomenon during 2007. By September 2009 it was a virus out of control. Described in Wired as a ‘popular internet meme’ (Wortham, 2008), the obsessive serial mash-up of a key sequence from Oliver Hirschbiegel’s 2004 film of the last days of Adolf Hitler, Der Untergang (The Downfall), is suggestive of the cultural logic of the contemporary formation known as remix.' Read more...

Latest Journal Issues

28 November, 2009

Special issue of Parrhesia on the work of Gilbert Simondon, with translations of Simondon's 'The Position of the Problem of Ontogenesis' and 'Technical Mentality.' The issue also features articles by Bernard Stiegler, Jean-Hughes Barthélémy, Paolo Virno, and an interview with Brian Massumi.

New issue of International Journal of Žižek Studies, with articles by Matthew Sharpe, Luke John Howie, Nadir Z. Lahiji, Raoul Moati, and Roque Farran.

New issue of Cosmos & History: 'Transcending the Disciplinary Boundaries,' edited by Arran Gare. With articles by Frade, Scarfe, Velasco, McLaren, Will, Mackey, Semetsky, MacSuibhne, David-West, Lovat, Hourigan, Gare, and Horvath

Fibreculture Journal: '2.0: Before, during and after the event,' edited by Anna Munster and Andrew Murphie. With articles by Aden Evens, Ben Roberts, Ganaele Langlois, Fenwick McKelvey, Greg Elmer, and Kenneth Werbin, Ien Ang and Nayantara Pothen, Geert Lovink, Ned Rossiter and Ippolita, Michel Bauwens, Juan Martin Prada

'One Story High': A special issue of Fast Capitalism about the narrative, visual and auditory power of biography. Curated by Audrey Sprenger and Ashley Vaughan, it features new, short and never before seen works by anthropologist Katie Stewart, novelist and literary critic Amitava Kumar, sociologist Charles Lemert and filmmaker and folklorist John Cohen, as well as eleven other master storytellers.

OHP Celebrates Open Access Week

16 October, 2009

As part of the worldwide celebration of Open Access week (19-23 October, 2009), OHP Steering Group members are participating in events at their campuses.

• University of California at Irvine Libraries and partners hosts "Open Access: The Status & Success with Different Disciplines"
• UCLA Library and their campus partners are hosting a week of events for faculty, students and librarians.
• Victoria University of Wellington Library and English Department are also hosting a week long series of events
  • Session 1 audio: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand (ogg 15MB. Get ogg player).
  • Session 2 audio: OA Publishing Workshop (ogg 26MB. Get ogg player).
• Or, to find an event near you see the Open Access Directory's global list of events.

Philosophy Journal Converts to Open Access

5 October, 2009

Filozofski vestnik International, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of the Arts and Sciences, has converted to open access and become part of the Open Humanities Press collective.

“We are delighted to join OHP’s list of prestigious OA journals” said Jelica Šumič-Riha, a member of the Filozofski vestnik International editorial board. “I'm sure that the journal will thrive surrounded by such a stimulating collective.”

Filozofski vestnik International, the international edition of the Slovenian language journal, will continue to publish in print as well as OA. The editors explained their decision as a way of extending the small print runs that are subsidized by the Slovenian government. “The open access edition will reach a much wider audience than the paper versions. We see them as complementary,” said Šumič-Riha.

Read the press release (pdf).

Five New Open Access Book Series

7 August, 2009

Open Humanities Press (OHP), in collaboration with the University of Michigan Library's Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), is launching five new open access book series, edited by senior members of the OHP Editorial Board. The series are:

Simon Eugster cc by-sa 3.0

• Critical Climate Change
  edited by Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook
• Global Conversations
  edited by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
• Liquid Books
  edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall
• New Metaphysics
  edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour
• Unidentified Theoretical Objects
  edited by Wlad Godzich

Ours is an innovative distributed publishing model that thrives on the partners' complementary strengths: as a library publisher, SPO has infrastructure, scale, and experience in digital production. OHP, as an editorial collective of humanities scholars, provides editorial and peer review.

Authors will retain the copyrights for their works and have a choice of Creative Commons licenses. All of the OHP books will be freely available in full-text, digital editions and as reasonably-priced paperbacks. Read the press release (pdf).