[Commlist] Geological Filmmaking and Volumetric Regimes: two new open access books from Open Humanities Press

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

/Geological Filmmaking/ by Sasha Litvintseva: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/geological-filmmaking/

/Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence/, edited 
by Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/volumetric-regimes/

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/Geological Filmmaking/ by Sasha Litvintseva: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/geological-filmmaking/

Every film image is geological. As a technical medium derived from the 
metals and minerals extracted from the earth, every moving image is 
materially embedded in the world it records. It is also temporally 
linked to the almost inconceivably vast deep time of the planet’s 
formation. What would it mean to make films in response to this 
situation? /Geological Filmmaking/ argues that the challenge lies in 
situating oneself in the space between the concrete object of a film and 
the broader planetary conditions of its existence. The nuances of this 
position are at once formal, ethical and political. Sasha Litvintseva 
discusses her process of developing such a film practice as a way of 
tackling the perceptual and aesthetic difficulties presented by ongoing 
ecological crises. These concerns are explored through the prism of the 
author’s own films about asbestos and sinkholes in their respective 
economic and colonial contexts.

/Geological Filmmaking/ develops a new genre of writing rooted in a 
reciprocity between the practice of making films and the theoretical 
study of the relations they participate in. Litvintseva expands current 
conversations in the environmental humanities through building on the 
rich legacy of experimental film as a tool for producing alternative 
modes of experiencing the world. The book is intended for readers from a 
broad range of backgrounds, looking for new ways of dealing with 
questions about the life and death of our planet.

/Geological Filmmaking/  is published in our MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW 
series, edited by Joanna Zylinska: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/media-art-write-now/

Author Bio

Sasha Litvintseva is an artist, filmmaker, writer and senior lecturer in 
Film at Queen Mary University of London. Her work is situated at the 
intersection of media, ecology and the history of science. Her films 
have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Berlinale and Rotterdam 
film festivals, Baltic Triennial and Venice Architecture Biennale. She 
is the author, with Beny Wagner, of /All Thoughts Fly: Monster, 
Taxonomy, Film/ (Sonic Acts Press, 2021). For more information on her 
work consult her webpage http://sashalitvintseva.com


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/Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence/, edited 
by Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/volumetric-regimes/

3D computation has historically co-evolved with Modern technosciences, 
and aligned with the regimes of optimisation, normalisation and 
hegemonic world order. The legacies and projections of industrial 
development leave traces of that imaginary and tell the stories of a 
lively tension between “the probable” and “the possible”. Defined as the 
techniques for measuring volumes, volumetrics all too easily (re)produce 
and accentuate the probable, and this process is intensified within the 
technocratic realm of contemporary hyper-computation. The ubiquity of 
efficient operations is deeply damaging in the way it gradually depletes 
the world of all possibility for engagement, interporousness and lively 
potential. Volumetric Regimes: material cultures of quantified presence 
proposes an urgent intersectional inquiry into volumetrics to foreground 
procedural, theoretical and infrastructural practices that provide with 
a widening of the possible.

/Volumetric Regimes/ emerges from Possible Bodies, a collaborative 
research activated by Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting on the very concrete 
and at the same time complex and fictional entities that “bodies” are, 
asking what matter-cultural conditions of possibility render them 
present. This becomes especially urgent in relation to technologies, 
infrastructures and techniques of 3D tracking, modelling and scanning. 
How does cyborg-ness participate in the presentation and representation 
of so-called bodies? Intersecting issues of race, gender, class, 
species, age and ability resurface through these performative as well as 
representational practices.

/Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence /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

Jara Rocha is an interdependent researcher-artist. They are currently 
involved in several disobedient action research projects, such as 
Volumetric Regimes (with Femke Snelting), The Underground Division (with 
Helen Pritchard and Femke Snelting), The Relearning Series (with Martino 
Morandi), and Vibes & Leaks (with Kym Ward and Xavier Gorgol). They are 
part of the curatorial teams of DONE at Foto Colectania, of ISEA at Arts 
Santa Mònica and of La Capella, all in Barcelona; Jara also teaches 
screen studies at the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de 
Catalunya, as well as at the Körper, Theorie und Poetik des 
Performativen Department at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 
Stuttgart. With Karl Moubarak and Cristina Cochior, they conform the 
Cell for Digital Discomfort at the 21/22 Fellowship for Situated 
Research of BAK, Utrecht. Jara works through the situated, mundane, and 
complex forms of distribution of the technological with an antifascist 
and trans*feminist sensibility, and their show “Naturoculturas son 
disturbios” emits erratically from dublab.es radio.

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of design, 
feminisms, and free software in various constellations. With Seda 
Gürses, Miriyam Aouragh, and Helen Pritchard, she runs the Institute for 
Technology in the Public Interest. With the Underground Division (Helen 
Pritchard and Jara Rocha) she studies the computational imaginations of 
rock formations, and with Jara Rocha, Femke activates Possible Bodies. 
She is team member of Programmable Infrastructures (TUDelft), i-DAT 
(University of Plymouth) and supports artistic research at PhdArts 
(Leiden), MERIAN (Maastricht) and a.pass (Brussels). Femke teaches at 
XPUB (MA Experimental Publishing, Rotterdam).


*Other recent titles from Open Humanities Press include:
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/Glitch Poetics /by Nathan Allen Jones: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/glitch-poetics/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/glitch-poetics/>

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/Más allá del derecho de autor, editado/by Alberto López Cuenca and 
Renato Bermúdez Dini:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mas-alla-del-derecho-de-autor/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mas-alla-del-derecho-de-autor/>


/Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative/, edited by Bernard Stiegler and the 
Internation Collective: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/>

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/La naturaleza como acontecimiento: El señuelo de lo possible/by Didier 
Debaise: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-naturaleza-como-acontecimiento/ 
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-naturaleza-como-acontecimiento/>

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

<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mas-alla-del-derecho-de-autor/>

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

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

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

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