[Commlist] Fabricating Publics and Hacking the Anthropocene: two new open access books from Open Humanities Press

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new 
open access books:


Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era, 
edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/


Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: 
Archive, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and 
Astrida Neimanis:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial-propositions-for-hacking-the-anthropocene/

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Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era, 
edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito

Fabricating Publics explores how cultural practitioners and institutions 
perceive their role in the post-truth era, by repositioning their work 
in relation to the notion of the “public”. The book addresses the 
multiple challenges posed for artists, curators and cultural activists 
by the conditions of post-factuality: Do cultural institutions have the 
practical means and the ethical authority to fight against the 
proliferation of “alternative facts” in politics, as well as within all 
aspects of our lives? What narratives of dissent are cultural 
practitioners developing, and how do they choose to communicate them? 
Could new media technologies still be considered as instruments of 
democratizing culture, or have they been irrevocably associated with 
‘empty’ populism? Do “counter-publics” exist and, if yes, how are they 
formed? In the end, is “truth” a notion that could be reclaimed through 
contemporary culture? With contributions by Charlie Gere, Christine 
Ross, David M. Berry, Emily Rosamond, Forensic Architecture, Gregory 
Sholette, Mieke Bal, Nat Muller, Ferry Biedermann, Natalie Bookchin, 
Alexandra Juhasz, Ramon Bloomberg, Santiago Zabala, Steven Henry Madoff, 
Terry Smith, and UBERMORGEN.

Fabricating Publics is published in our DATA Browser series, which is 
edited by Geoff Cox and Joasia Krysa:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/data-browser/

Editor Bios

Bill Balaskas is an artist, theorist, and educator, whose research is 
located at the intersection of politics, digital media, and contemporary 
visual culture. He is an Associate Professor and Director of Research, 
Business and Innovation at the School of Art and Architecture of 
Kingston University, London. His work has been widely exhibited in the 
UK and internationally. He has received awards and grants from the 
European Investment Bank Institute; Comité International d’Histoire de 
l’Art (CIHA); Open Society Foundations; European Cultural Foundation; 
the Australian National University; and the Association for Art History 
(UK), amongst others. He is Editor of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac 
(MIT Press), co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial 
Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg Press, 2020), and of 
Architectures of Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020). Originally 
trained as an economist, he holds a PhD in Critical Writing in Art and 
Design from the Royal College of Art, London.

Carolina Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the 
Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), Coventry 
University, UK, and lead of the Critical Practices research strand. She 
is a researcher and curator whose work explores ‘the curatorial’ as an 
investigative practice, expanding practice-based research in the fields 
of curating, visual cultures, and cultural studies. Rito is Executive 
Board Member of the Midlands Higher Education & Culture Forum (MHECF); 
Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Universidade 
NOVA Lisboa; Founding Editor of The Contemporary Journal; and Chair of 
the Collaborative Research Working Group for the MHECF. Rito is the 
co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for 
Collaborative Research (Sternberg Press, 2020); Architectures of 
Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020); and editor of the “On 
Translations” and “Critical Pedagogies” issues (The Contemporary 
Journal, 2018–2020). From 2017 to 2019, she was Head of Public 
Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary. She holds a PhD in 
Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene, 
edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and Astrida 
Neimanis

If the Anthropocene heralds both a new age of human supremacy and an 
out-of-control Nature ushering in a premature apocalypse, this living 
book insists such assumptions must be hacked. Reperforming selections 
from three live events staged in 2016, 2017 and 2018 in Sydney, 
Australia, Hacking the Anthropocene offers a series of propositions – 
argument, augury, poetry, elegy, essay, image, video – that suggest 
alternative entry points for understanding shifting relationships 
between humans and nature. Scholars and artists from environmental 
humanities and related areas of social, political and cultural studies 
interrogate the assumption of the human “we” as a uniform actor, and 
offer a timely reminder of the entanglements of race, sexuality, gender, 
coloniality, class, and species in all of our earthly terraformings. 
Here, Anthropocene politics are both urgent and playful, and the 
personal is also planetary.

Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene 
is an OHP Labs Seedbook:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/labs/seedbooks/

Editor Bios

Jennifer Mae Hamilton lives on unceded Anaiwan Country, and is a 
researcher, teacher and community organiser. Her interdisciplinary 
research explores weather, affect and housework, and, with Astrida 
Neimanis, co-founded COMPOSTING Feminisms and Environmental Humanities. 
She is a lecturer in English at the University of New England.

Astrida Neimanis is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental 
Humanities at UBC Okanagan campus on unceded Syilx territory in Kelowna, 
Canada. She is co-coordindator of COMPOSTING Feminisms (with Jennifer 
Hamilton), a member of the Weathering Collective, and director of The 
Feel-ed Lab. She also writes about bodies, water, and weather.

Sue Reid is a creative researcher, artist, writer and lawyer, working 
and living on Gadigal and Yugambeh lands. She is a member of the Sydney 
Environment Institute; a researcher with The Seed Box; and a PhD 
candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at The 
University of Sydney—her thesis is titled, ‘Imagining Justice with the 
Ocean.’

Pia van Gelder is a researcher, historian and artist at the School of 
Art & Design at the Australian National University. Her work 
investigates historical and contemporary conceptions of energies and how 
these shape our relationship with technology, bodies and our environment.


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Other recent titles from Open Humanities Press include:

The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented 
Ontology by Gabriel Yoran: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/

La magie réaliste: objets, ontologie et causalité by**Timothy Morton: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/

hyposubjects: on becoming human**by Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/

Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics by Daniel Ross: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/ 


A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain by Gary Hall: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury

Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies by Winnie Soon and 
Geoff Cox: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/

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