[Commlist] Transit Asia Critical Concepts - new book

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of:

Transit Asia Critical Concepts

edited by Joyce C. H. Liu, Brett Neilson, Karin Oen-Lee and Ned Rossiter

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/transit-asia/

Like all Open Humanities Press books,Transit Asia Critical Conceptsis 
available open access (= it can be downloaded for free):

Concepts hold the world together. But what happens when the world 
fragments, explodes in war, faces the epistemic collapse wrought by AI, 
or the ravages of climate spun out of control? Concepts also 
disintegrate, lose their self-positing status. And yet critique does not 
simply dissolve in conditions of radical uncertainty. There is a hunger 
to critique. It finds new forms, partial, provisional, forged from 
within instability rather than above. Transit Asia Critical Concepts 
emerges from this conceptual turbulence.

The concepts gathered in this book are not designed to map Asia, to fix 
its contours, or confirm its coherence. They move across Asian 
environments, through infrastructures of labour and logistics, inside 
computational architectures and their human remainders, against the 
unevenly distributed catastrophes of climate and war in ways that exceed 
the regional frame they inhabit. That excess is not incidental. It is 
what thinking from Asia produces, a movement beyond the cultural 
imaginaries, institutional settings, and lived encounters that give Asia 
its apparent shape.


Editor Bios

Joyce C. H. Liu is Professor Emerita and Director of the International 
Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, 
Taiwan. Her work on coloniality, biopolitics, and Inter-Asian 
infrastructures includes /One Divides into Two/ (2020) and /Tianxia and 
Its Discontents/ (Routledge, 2026).

Brett Neilson is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, 
Western Sydney University. He is author, with Sandro Mezzadra, of 
/Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor/ and /The Politics of 
Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism/.

Karin Oen-Lee is Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies 
at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her work as a curator, 
editor, and art historian focuses on diasporic, transdisciplinary, and 
interlocal creative practices as part of global Asia.

Ned Rossiter is Director of Research at the Institute for Culture and 
Society, and Professor of Communication, School of Arts, Western Sydney 
University. His current book projects include /The Logistical Episteme/ 
and (with Soenke Zehle) /Entropological Materialism: Ordering Disorder 
in the Cybnernetic Century/ (2027).

Series

Transit Asia Critical Concepts is published as part of the Low Latencies 
series, edited by Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/low-latencies/

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