1 All ScholarLed presses
This page shows the latest publications (in descending order of publication date) from all of the open access publishers in the ScholarLed consortium (Mattering Press, meson press, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, African Minds, and mediastudies.press).
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Last updated: 2023-01-18 15:11:41
1.1 No date
1.1.1 Technopharmacology
Author: Joshua Neves
Author: Susanna Paasonen
Author: Aleena Chia
Author: Ravi Sundaram
1.2 No date
1.2.1 Remain
Author: Jussi Parikka
Author: Ioana B. Jucan
Author: Rebecca Schneider
1.3 January 2023
1.3.1 Notes on Trumpspace: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home
Author: David Markus
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023
1.3.2 Reshaping Food Systems to improve Nutrition and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Author: Ayoub Al-Jawaldeh
Author: Alexa Meyer
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0322
This detailed and comprehensive study examines nutrition and health in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region, presenting the six game-changing food systems actions proposed by the WHO and the progress of their implementation in the region.
1.4 December 2022
1.4.1 Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies: Treasures from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Daryl S. Paulson Collection
Author: Stephen Little
Author: T. Lawrence Larkin
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.4.2 The Angels Won’t Help You
Author: M.H. Bowker
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.4.3 Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet
Author: Kristien Hens
Illustrator: Christina Stadlbauer
Illustrator: Bart H.M. Vandeput
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0320
In this rigorous and necessary book, Kristien Hens brings together bioethics and the philosophy of biology to argue that it is ethically necessary for scientific research to include a place for the philosopher. As well as ethical, their role is conceptual: they can improve the quality and coherence of scientific research by ensuring that particular concepts are used consistently and thoughtfully across interdisciplinary projects. Hens argues that chance and uncertainty play a central part in bioethics, but that these qualities can be in tension with the attempt to establish a given theory as scientific knowledge: in describing organisms and practices, in a sense we create the world. Hens contends that this is necessarily an ethical activity.
1.4.4 Communication Conduct in an Island Community
Author: Erving Goffman
Introduction_by: Yves Winkin
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2022
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.baaa50af
Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, published here for the first time on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
1.4.5 Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music
Author: Steven Jan
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0301
Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music by Steven Jan is a comprehensive account of the relationships between evolutionary theory and music. Examining the ‘evolutionary algorithm’ that drives biological and musical-cultural evolution, the book provides a distinctive commentary on how musicality and music can shed light on our understanding of Darwin’s famous theory – and vice-versa.
1.4.6 William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art
Author: Dorinda Evans
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0304
William Rimmer (1816–1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although his inventive originality has not been fully acknowledged. Rimmer cultivated an art of ideas and personal expression whilst supporting himself as a physician and, later, as a teacher of art anatomy at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York.
1.4.7 Static Palace
Author: Leora Fridman
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.5 November 2022
1.5.1 Engaging with Everyday Sounds
Author: Marcel Cobussen
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0288
‘Engaging With Everyday Sounds’ is a rich and inspiring exploration of the role of sounds in everyday life, including their impact on human actions, emotions, and imagination. Marcel Cobussen intertwines sonic studies with philosophy, sound art, sociology and more to create an impressively lucid and innovative guide to sonic materialism, calling for a re-sensitization to our acoustic environment and arguing that everyday sounds have (micro)political, social, and ethical impact to which we should attend.
1.5.2 The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls
Author: Daniel James Waller
Contributions_by: Dorota Molin
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0305
The Bible in the Bowls represents a complete catalogue of Hebrew Bible quotations found in the published corpus of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls. As our only direct epigraphic witnesses to the Hebrew Bible from late antique Babylonia, the bowls are uniquely placed to contribute to research on the (oral) transmission of the biblical text in late antiquity; the pre-Masoretic Babylonian vocalisation tradition; the formation of the liturgy and the early development of the Jewish prayer book; the social locations of biblical knowledge in late antique Babylonia and socio-religious typologies of the bowls; and the dynamics of scriptural citation in ancient Jewish magic.
1.5.3 My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops As Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News
Editor: Alexandra Juhasz
Foreword_by: Tara McPherson
Afterword_by: Margaret Rhee
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.5.4 Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy
Author: C. Jon Delogu
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.6 October 2022
1.6.1 ‘Fragile States’ in an Unequal World: The Role of the g7+ in International Diplomacy and Development Cooperation
Author: Isabel Rocha de Siqueira
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0311
This is a book about people. ‘Fragile States’ in an Unequal World: The Role of the g7+ in International Diplomacy and Development Cooperation introduces the members of the g7+, a group formed by 20 conflict-affected states: why they came to believe in politics and policy; how they feel about their work, their family and their communities; and what they want to leave behind for the next generations. It is the story of their personal and collective values, their mistakes, and the challenges they faced, and it will resonate with anyone who has tried to organize and work with a group of very different people.
1.6.2 Diachronic Variation in the Omani Arabic Vernacular of the Al-ʿAwābī District: From Carl Reinhardt (1894) to the Present Day
Author: Roberta Morano
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0298
In this monograph, Roberta Morano re-examines one of the foundational works of the Omani Arabic dialectology field, Carl Reinhardt’s Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ’Oman und Zanzibar (1894). This German-authored work was prolific in shaping our knowledge of Omani Arabic during the twentieth century, until the 1980s when more recent linguistic studies on the Arabic varieties spoken in Oman began to appear.
1.6.3 Something More Splendid Than Two
Author: josé rivers alfaro
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.6.4 The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation: The History and Politics of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya
Author: Fadhli Lukman
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0289
This book studies the political and institutional project of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya, the official translation of the Qurʾān into Indonesian by the Indonesian government. It investigates how the translation was produced and presented, and how it is read, as well as considering the implications of the state’s involvement in such a work.
1.7 September 2022
1.7.1 Guantánamo Frames
Author: Rebecca Boguska
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022
1.7.2 Nonconscious: On the Affective Synching of Mind and Machine
Author: Marie-Luise Angerer
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022
Growing numbers of nonhuman companions are creating affective synching between human and nonhuman agency. Unlike the unconscious of psychoanalysis, this book argues, the resulting nonconscious is no longer coupled to a subject grounded in language, instead acting as an affective link between technical, mental, and physical processes.
1.7.3 The Dark Posthuman: Dehumanization, Technology, and the Atlantic World
Author: Stephanie Polsky
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.7.4 A Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter
Author: Peter Valente
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.7.5 An Outline of Romanticism in the West
Author: John Claiborne Isbell
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0302
Navigating the landscape of Romantic literature and art across Europe and the Americas, An Outline of Romanticism in the West invites readers to embark upon a literary journey. Showcasing a breadth of theoretical and contextual approaches to the study of Romanticism, John Isbell provides an insightful contemporary overview of the field, paired with wide-ranging comparative reflections on the art and literature that helped shape it.
1.7.6 Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No!
Author: Joseph Nechvatal
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.8 August 2022
1.8.1 The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient World
Author: William St Clair
Editor: Lucy Barnes
Editor: David St Clair
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0279
Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly ‘the very symbol of democracy itself’, instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how?
1.8.2 Second Chance: My Life in Things
Author: Ruth Rosengarten
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0285
In this intimate memoir, Ruth Rosengarten explores the subject of evocative objects through a series of interconnected essays.
1.8.3 Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini: A Critical Edition with English Translation
Author: David Torollo
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0299
This groundbreaking new work is the first full critical edition and English translation of the Hebrew book Sefer ha-Pardes [The Book of the Orchard], written at the end of the thirteenth century by the Provençal Jewish author Jedaiah ha-Penini.
1.9 July 2022
1.9.1 Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty
Author: Gavin Keeney
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.9.2 Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings
Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0284
In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts.
1.9.3 Escape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body
Author: Roy Christopher
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.9.4 The Power of Music: An Exploration of the Evidence
Author: Susan Hallam
Author: Evangelos Himonides
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0292
Building on her earlier work, ‘The Power of Music: A Research Synthesis of the Impact of Actively Making Music on the Intellectual, Social and Personal Development of Children and Young People’, this volume by Susan Hallam and Evangelos Himonides is an important new resource in the field of music education, practice, and psychology.
1.9.5 Pitch and Revelation: Reconfigurations of Reading, Poetry, and Philosophy through the Work of Jay Wright
Author: Matthew Goulish
Author: Will Daddario
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.10 June 2022
1.10.1 Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 1
Author: Geoffrey Khan
Author: Dorota Molin
Author: Masoud Mohammadirad
Author: Paul M. Noorlander
Contributions_by: Lourd Habeeb Hanna
Contributions_by: Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari
Contributions_by: Salim Abraham
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0306
This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.
1.10.2 Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq: A Comparative Anthology with a Sample of Glossed Texts, Volume 2
Author: Geoffrey Khan
Author: Paul M. Noorlander
Author: Masoud Mohammadirad
Author: Dorota Molin
Contributions_by: Lourd Habeeb Hanna
Contributions_by: Aziz Emmanuel Eliya Al-Zebari
Contributions_by: Salim Abraham
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0307
This comparative anthology showcases the rich and mutually intertwined folklore of three ethno-religious communities from northern Iraq: Aramaic-speaking (‘Syriac’) Christians, Kurdish Muslims and—to a lesser extent—Aramaic-speaking Jews.
1.10.3 Nothing As We Need It: A Chimera
Author: Daniela Cascella
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.10.4 Fahrradutopien: Medien, Ästhetiken und Aktivismus
Author: Julia Bee
Author: Ulrike Bergermann
Author: Linda Keck
Author: Sarah Sander
Author: Herbert Schwaab
Author: Markus Stauff
Author: Franzi Wagner
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022
1.10.5 Turkish Voices
Author: Murat Nemet-Nejat
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.10.6 The Merger Mystery: Why Spend Ever More on Mergers When So Many Fail?
Author: Geoff Meeks
Author: J. Gay Meeks
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0309
Drawing on findings from a wealth of statistical analyses and case evidence from many businesses, the book presents answers to this merger mystery. In a synthesis of ideas from several disciplines, solutions are detected in misaligned incentives, distorted financial engineering and information asymmetry. By revealing how weaknesses at multiple points can interact and cumulate to produce inefficient outcomes, the discussion serves as a corrective to the overwhelmingly positive tone of most commentary on M&A, whilst also advocating changes in participants’ contracts, in taxation, and in regulation which could significantly reduce the number of mergers that fail.
1.10.7 Letters on the Autonomy Project
Author: Janet Sarbanes
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.11 May 2022
1.11.1 Performing Deception: Learning, Skill and the Art of Conjuring
Author: Brian Rappert
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0295
In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself.
1.11.2 Who Saved the Parthenon?: A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
Author: William St Clair
Editor: David St Clair
Editor: Lucy Barnes
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0136
In this magisterial book, William St Clair unfolds the history of the Parthenon throughout the modern era to the present day, with special emphasis on the period before, during, and after the Greek War of Independence of 1821–32.
1.11.3 Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture
Author: Elliot C. Mason
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.11.4 Nubian Proverbs (Fadijja/Mahas)
Author: Maher Habbob
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.11.5 Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes
Author: Melanie Walker
Author: Monica McLean
Author: Mikateko Mathebula
Author: Patience Mukwambo
Cape Town: African Minds, 2022
1.11.6 Out of Place: An Autoethnography of Postcolonial Citizenship
Author: Nuraan Davids
Foreword_by: Jonathan D Jansen
Cape Town: African Minds, 2022
https://doi.org/10.47622/9781928502364
Out of Place offers an in-depth exploration of Nuraan Davids’ experience as a Muslim ‘coloured’ woman, traversing a post-apartheid space. It centres on and explores a number of themes, which include her challenges not only as a South African citizen, and within her faith community, but as an academic citizen at a historically white university. The book is her story, an autoethnography, her reparation.
By embarking on an auto-ethnography, she not only tries to change the way her story has been told by others, transforms her ‘sense of what it means to live’ (Bhabha, 1994). She is driven by a postcolonial appeal, which insists that if she seeks to imprint her own way of life into the discourses which pervade the world around her, then she can no longer allow herself to be spoken on behalf of or to be subjugated into the hegemonies of others.
The main argument of Out of Place is that Muslim, ‘coloured’ women are subjected to layers of scrutiny and prejudices, which have yet to be confronted. What we know about Muslim ‘coloured’ women has been shaped by preconceived notions of ‘otherness’, and attached to a meta-narrative of ‘oppression and backwardness’. By centring and using her lived experiences, the author takes readers on a journey of what it is like to be seen in terms of race, gender and religion – not only within the public sphere of her professional identities, but within the private sphere of her faith community.
1.12 April 2022
1.12.1 The Voice of the Century: The Culture of Italian Bel Canto in Luisa Tetrazzini’s Recorded Interpretations
Author: Massimo Zicari
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0277
This innovative work considers the notion of bel canto and the manner in which this vibrant tradition lives in the records of Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940), one of the most celebrated sopranos ever. Tetrazzini, whose discographic career includes about 120 recordings, belongs to that generation of inspirational performers who heralded the dawn of a new era of music appreciation, alongside such iconic figures as Enrico Caruso, Adelina Patti and Nellie Melba.
1.12.2 A Philosophy of Cover Songs
Author: P.D. Magnus
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0293
In A Philosophy of Cover Songs, P.D. Magnus demonstrates that philosophy provides a valuable toolbox for thinking about covers; in turn, the philosophy of cover songs illustrates some general points about philosophical method.
1.12.3 Ecocene Politics
Author: Mihnea Tănăsescu
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0274
Anchored in the diverse ecological practices of communities in southern Italy and Aotearoa/New Zealand, this book devises a unique and considered theoretical response to the shortcomings of global politics in the Ecocene—a new temporal epoch characterised by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life.
1.12.4 Foucault, digital
Author: Bernhard J. Dotzler
Author: Henning Schmidgen
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022
1.12.5 Broken Theory
Author: Alan Sondheim
Afterword_by: Ryan Whyte
Preface_by: Maria Damon
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.12.6 A Buddha Land in This World: Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism
Author: Lajos Brons
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.12.7 What Was Artificial Intelligence?
Author: Sue Curry Jansen
Bethlehem, PA: mediastudies.press, 2022
https://doi.org/10.32376/3f8575cb.0cc62523
Sue Curry Jansen’s classic critique of AI rhetoric, republished open access with a new introduction by Jansen.
1.13 March 2022
1.13.1 dis/cord: Thinking Sound through Agential Realism
Author: Kevin Toksöz Fairbarn
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.13.2 Uexküll’s Surroundings: Umwelt Theory and Right-Wing Thought
Author: Gottfried Schnödl
Author: Florian Sprenger
Translator: Michael Thomas Taylor
Translator: Wayne Yung
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2022
1.13.3 A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present
Author: John Andrew Black
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0281
A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western scholar to place the long-term development of Japanese infrastructure alongside an analysis of its evolving political economy.
1.13.4 The Romanian Sentiment of Being
Author: Constantin Noica
Translator: Octavian Gabor
Translator: Elena Gabor
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.13.5 Queer and Bookish: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as Book Artist
Author: Jason Edwards
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.14 February 2022
1.14.1 William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”: A Life
Author: William F. Halloran
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0276
Drawing extensively on his letters, his wife Elizabeth Sharp’s Memoir, and accounts by friends and associates, this biography provides a lucid and intimate account of William Sharp’s life, from his rejection of the dour religion of his Scottish boyhood, his turn to spiritualism, to his role in the Scottish Celtic Revival in the mid-nineties.
1.14.2 The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West: Towards a Temple Society
Author: Ian Wood
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.14.3 The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho
Author: Oz Aloni
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0272
Aloni focuses on three genres of the Zakho community’s oral heritage: the proverb, the enriched biblical narrative and the folktale.
1.14.4 Replanteando la acción social por la música: la búsqueda de la convivencia y la ciudadanía en la Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín
Author: Geoffrey Baker
Translator: Claudia García
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0263
Este libro pionero examina el desarrollo de La Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín, una red de 27 escuelas fundada en 1996 en la segunda ciudad principal de Colombia como respuesta a su reputación como la ciudad más peligrosa en la Tierra. Inspirada en El Sistema, el programa venezolano fundacional de educación musical, La Red es, no obstante, notablemente diferente: su historia es una de múltiples reinvenciones y de una búsqueda continua para mejorar su oferta educativa y alcanzar mejor sus objetivos sociales. Sus reflexiones internas e intentos de transformación arrojan luz valiosa sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de ASPM.
1.15 January 2022
1.15.1 Broken Narrative: The Politics of Contemporary Art in Albania
Author: Marco Mazzi
Author: Armando Lulaj
Translator: Brenda Porster
Translator: Tomii Keiko
Preface_by: Jonida Gashi
Preface_by: Osamu Kanemura
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.15.2 Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South
Author: Carmen Martinez-Vargas
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0273
In this book Carmen Martinez-Vargas explores how academic participatory research and the way it is carried out can contribute to more, or less, social justice. Adopting theoretical and empirical approaches, and addressing multiple complex, intersectional issues, this book offers inspiration for scholars and practitioners to open up alternative pathways to social justice, viewed through a Global South lens.
1.15.3 Abruptly Dogen
Author: Kidder Smith
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022
1.15.4 Horos: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone
Author: Thea Potter
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0266
In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the ‘horos’, a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property.Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing that it is central to the development of classical philosophy and the marketplace.
1.16 December 2021
1.16.1 Sweet Spots: Writing the Connective Tissue of Relation
Author: Mattie-Martha Sempert
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.16.2 Wonder, Horror, Mystery: Letters on Cinema and Religion in Malick, Von Trier, and Kieślowski
Author: J.M. Tyree
Author: Morgan Meis
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.16.3 Making the Void Fruitful: Yeats as Spiritual Seeker and Petrarchan Lover
Author: Patrick J. Keane
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0275
Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats—widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century—this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet’s long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats’s vision of life and death.
1.16.4 Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy
Author: Martin Paul Eve
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.16.5 Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
Author: Nick Posegay
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0271
This book investigates the theories behind Semitic vocalisation and vowel phonology in the early medieval Middle East, tracing their evolution to identify points of intellectual contact between Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew linguists before the twelfth century.
1.16.6 Mary Warnock: Ethics, Education and Public Policy in Post-War Britain
Author: Philip Graham
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0278
This biography illuminates the life and thought of Baroness Mary Warnock, whose active years spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which opportunities for middle-class women rapidly and vastly improved.
1.16.7 Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture
Author: Morag Josephine Grant
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0231
In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this iconic song, demonstrating how its association with ideas of fellowship, friendship and sociality has enabled it to become so significant for such a wide range of individuals and communities around the world.
1.16.8 Coping: A Philosophical Guide
Author: Luc Bovens
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0268
Coping and Philosophy is a collection of philosophical essays on how we deal with life’s challenges. We hope for better times, but what is hope and is it a good thing to hope? How do we look back and make sense of our lives in the face of death? What is the nature of love and how do we deal with its hardships? What makes for a genuine apology and is there too much or too little apologizing in this world? Can we effect changes in ourselves to adapt to our circumstances? And how can we sense of all the counsel that people have: be grateful, don’t cry over spilled milk, eat well, …
1.17 November 2021
1.17.1 Epidicus by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation
Author: Catherine Tracy
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0269
Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master’s illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master’s son, but a comedy of mistaken identities and competing interests ensues. Amid the mayhem, Epidicus aims to win his freedom whilst risking some of the grislier punishments the Romans inflicted on their unfortunate slaves.
1.17.2 Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming
Author: KJ Cerankowski
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.17.3 Geographies of Identity: Narrative Forms, Feminist Futures
Author: Jill Darling
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.17.4 Forms of Life and Subjectivity: Rethinking Sartre’s Philosophy
Author: Daniel Rueda Garrido
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0259
‘Forms of Life and Subjectivity: Rethinking Sartre’s Philosophy’ explores the fundamental question of why we act as we do. Informed by an ontological and phenomenological approach, and building mainly, but not exclusively, on the thought of Sartre, Daniel Rueda Garrido considers the concept of a “form of life” as a term that bridges the gap between subjective identity and communities.
1.17.5 Documentary Making for Digital Humanists
Author: Darren R. Reid
Author: Brett Sanders
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0255
Documentary Making for Digital Humanists sets out the fundamentals of filmmaking, explores academic discourse on digital documentaries and online distribution, and considers the place of this discourse in the evolving academic landscape.
1.18 October 2021
1.18.1 Uexkülls Umgebungen: Umweltlehre und rechtes Denken
Author: Florian Sprenger
Author: Gottfried Schnödl
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2021
1.18.2 Bullied: The Story of an Abuse
Author: Jonathan Alexander
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.18.3 Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach
Author: Philip S. Peek
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0264
In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity.
1.18.4 Media and Management
Author: Rutvica Andrijasevic
Author: Julie Yujie Chen
Author: Melissa Gregg
Author: Marc Steinberg
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2021
1.18.5 Obiter Dicta
Author: Erick Verran
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.18.6 With Microbes
Author: Charlotte Brives
Author: Salla Sariola
Author: Matthäus Rest
Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, 2021
https://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729180
Without microbes, no other forms of life would be possible. But what does it mean to be with microbes? With Microbes sets microbes and the multiple ways they exist around, in and on humans at center stage. In this book, 24 social scientists and artists attune to microbes and describe their complicated relationships with humans and other beings. The book shows the multiplicity of these relationships and their dynamism, through detailed ethnographies of the relationships between humans, animals, plants, and microbes. Ethnographic explorations with fermented foods, waste, faecal matter, immunity, antimicrobial resistance, phages, as well as indigenous and scientific understandings of microbes challenge ideas of them being simple entities: not just pathogenic foes, old friends or good fermentation minions, but so much more. By describing these complex, dynamic, and ever-changing entanglements between humans and microbes, the chapters raise crucial points about how microbes are ‘known’ and how social scientists can study microbes with ethnographic methods, more often than not in the absence of microscopes, models, and computations. Following these various entanglements, the book tells how these relations transform both humans and microbes in the process.
1.19 September 2021
1.19.1 Wound Building: Dispatches from the Latest Disasters in UK Poetry
Author: Danny Hayward
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.19.2 (((
Author: Alessandro De Francesco
Translator: Gen Ueda
Translator: Andreas Burckhardt
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.20 August 2021
1.20.1 Closer to Dust
Author: Sara A. Rich
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.20.2 From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture
Author: Roger Paulin
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0258
From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years.
1.20.3 The Map and the Territory
Author: Michael Munro
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.20.4 Inefficient Mapping: A Protocol for Attuning to Phenomena
Author: Linda Knight
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.21 July 2021
1.21.1 Still Life: Notes on Barbara Loden’s “Wanda” (1970)
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Author: Anna Backman Rogers
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.21.2 Helicography
Author: Craig Dworkin
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.21.3 Really Fake
Author: Alexandra Juhasz
Author: Ganaele Langlois
Author: Nishant Shah
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2021
1.21.4 Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: An Actual Occasion
Author: Sher Doruff
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.21.5 Towards an Ethics of Autism: A Philosophical Exploration
Author: Kristien Hens
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0261
What does it mean to say that someone is autistic? Dynamics of Autism is an exploration of this question and many more.
1.21.6 ρan-ρan
Author: The Confraternity of Neoflagellants
Foreword_by: Simon O’Sullivan
Afterword_by: Most Dismal Swamp
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.22 June 2021
1.22.1 Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property
Author: Martin Zeilinger
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2021
1.22.2 Cinema’s Doppelgängers
Author: Doug Dibbern
Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2021
1.22.3 Undoing Networks
Author: Tero Karppi
Author: Urs Stäheli
Author: Clara Wieghorst
Author: Lea P. Zierott
Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2021