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1. A New Companion to Digital Humanities

   This highly-anticipated volume has been extensively revised to reflect changes in technology, digital humanities methods and practices, and institutional culture surrounding the valuation and publication of digital scholarship. 

   • A fully revised edition of a celebrated reference work, offering the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of research currently available in this rapidly evolving discipline 
   • Includes new articles addressing topical and provocative issues and ideas such as retro computing, desktop fabrication, gender dynamics, and globalization 
   • Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities 
   • Accessibly structured into five sections exploring infrastructures, creation, analysis, dissemination, and the future of digital humanities
   • Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities

     (Source: Publisher's website) 

    

   Alvaro Seica - 01.06.2016 - 11:35

2. Nature is What Hurts

   In this review of Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects, Robert Seguin contemplates the implication of the text’s eponymous subject on art, philosophy, and politics. The “hyperobject,” a hypothetical agglomeration of networked interactions with the potential to produce inescapable shifts in the very conditions of existence, emerges as the key consideration for the being in the present.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/hurts)

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 10:25

3. “Persist in Folly”: Review of Mark Greif, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973

   Afterthoughts on the end of the sixties, the death of the author, the rise of Theory and the fall of humanism.

   Source: Author's abstract

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 16:36

4. The Primacy of the Object

   In his review of Martin Paul Eve’s Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno, Julius Greve situates this new book on Pynchon within the upheavals produced by speculative realism and contemporary discourses on materialism. In doing so, Greve reminds us of what was always already the case: the literary-philosophical relevance of Pynchon, which turns out to be all the more inescapable in contemporary political climates.

   Source: Author's abstract

   Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 17:41

5. Recounting Signatures: A Review of James McFarland’s Constellation

   In reviewing James McFarland’s Constellation, Donald Cross reminds readers of the rich potential of scholarly discourse. Beyond mere citations and their absence, Cross traces across the bright stars of Nietzsche and Benjamin (and Derrida) relationships worthy of serious consideration. In an age of copy/paste citations, impact reports, and optimized academics, pondering the constellations offers an opportunity to rediscover the subtle intensity of tracing forms in the void.

   Source: Author's abstract

   Ana Castello - 17.10.2017 - 14:45

6. Digital Revision

   In this analytical, unabashedly philosophical engagement with Alex Galloway’s “sneakily-titled” Laruelle Against the Digital, Martin Eve sides with the skeptics for whom “Laruelle proves a better diagnostician of epistemic illness than he is prescriber of a cure.”

   Source: Abstract

   Ana Castello - 17.10.2017 - 15:03