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ATLAS of
‘CRITICAL’ CLIMATE CHANGE
Fordham University Press, forthcoming (2010)
Edited by Tom Cohen and Henry Sussman
An inter-disciplinary “Atlas” on how critical concepts
mutate before 21st century “climate change.”
Contributors:
J. Zylinski, C. Colebrook, H. Saussy, B. Stiegler, S. Weber, B. Clarke, T. Cohen, H. Sussman, T.J. Clarke, R. C. Malabou, R. Martin, E. Ziarek, J. Copjec, J. H. Miller, R. Chow, A. Moreiras, R. Markley, M. Hill, Tian Song, J. Bunn, Y. McKee, J. Groves
*Critical Climate Change*
an OHP Critical Series edited by
Claire Colebrook and Tom Cohen
The era of climate change involves the mutation of systems beyond 20th century anthropomorphic models and has stood, until recently, outside representation or address. Understood in a broad and critical sense, climate change concerns material agencies that impact on biomass and energy, erased borders and microbial invention, geological and nanographic time, and extinction events. The possibility of extinction has always been a latent figure in textual production and archives; but the current sense of depletion, decay, mutation and exhaustion calls for new modes of address, new styles of publishing and authoring, and new formats and speeds of distribution. As the pressures and re-alignments of this re-arrangement occur, so must the critical languages and conceptual templates, political premises and definitions of life. There is a particular need to publish in timely fashion experimental monographs that redefine the boundaries of disciplinary fields, rhetorical invasions, the interface of conceptual and scientific languages, and geomorphic and geopolitical interventions. Critical Climate Change is oriented, in this general manner, toward the epistemo-political mutations that correspond to the temporalities of terrestrial mutation.
website: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/critical-climate-change.html
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