{"id":3428,"date":"2016-12-28T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T11:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2016-12-28T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T11:46:31","slug":"disrupting-the-humanities-towards-posthumanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/?p=3428","title":{"rendered":"Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introduction Disrupting the Humanities. Towards Posthumanities\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ms5w23nD-ow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I am very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the\u00a0<em>Journal of Electronic Publishing<\/em>: \u2018Disrupting the\u00a0<em>Human<\/em>ities: Towards Posthumanities\u2019, edited by Gary Hall and myself. This special issue consists of a selection of video-articles by contributors including Mark Amerika, Monika Bakke, Endre D\u00e1nyi, Johanna Drucker, Lesley Gourlay, Sarah Kember, Silvio Lorusso, Erin Manning, Niamh Moore, Karen Newman, S\u00d8ren Pold, Craig Saper, and Iris van der Tuin, and is divided into 3 sections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org\/#part-one\">Creating Posthumanities: Disrupting Humanities Methodologies<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org\/#part-two\">Performing Posthumanities: Disrupting Humanities Aesthetics<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org\/#part-three\">Circulating Posthumanities: Disrupting Humanities Institutions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find this special issue (all papers are open access, CC-BY) here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org\/\">http:\/\/www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">This special issue of the\u00a0<em>Journal of Electronic Publishing<\/em> has been based on \u2018Disrupting the\u00a0<em>Human<\/em>ities\u2019, a series of seminars that explored research and scholarship in a \u2018posthumanities\u2019 context, organised by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/disruptivemedia.org.uk\/\">Centre for Disruptive Media<\/a>\u00a0at Coventry University. Disrupting the\u00a0<em>Human<\/em>ities both critically engaged with the humanist legacy of the humanities, and creatively explored alternative and affirmative possible futures for the humanities. This series was accompanied by a wiki which is still available here: <u><a href=\"http:\/\/disruptivemedia.org.uk\/wiki\/\">http:\/\/disruptivemedia.org.uk\/wiki\/<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Gary Hall and I have written an introduction article accompany this special issue: \u2018Posthumanities: The Dark Side of \u201cThe Dark Side of the Digital\u201d\u2019,\u00a0which details the conceptual premises underlying both the Disrupting the\u00a0<em>Human<\/em>ities seminar series and this special issue of the <em>Journal of Electronic Publishing<\/em>, and engages with various discourses around the disruptive humanities, the digital humanities, the posthuman humanities and critical\/political humanities. It also outlines the experimental way in which we have conducted the seminars and edited the videos, and introduces and puts into context the individual video-articles. Our introduction is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3998\/3336451.0019.201\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.3998\/3336451.0019.201<\/a>\u00a0It is accompanied by a video,\u00a0edited by George Otelea, which you can find above this post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3433\" src=\"https:\/\/openreflections.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen-shot-2016-12-28-at-11-10-47.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen-shot-2016-12-28-at-11-10-47.png 1340w, https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen-shot-2016-12-28-at-11-10-47-300x294.png 300w, https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen-shot-2016-12-28-at-11-10-47-1024x1003.png 1024w, https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen-shot-2016-12-28-at-11-10-47-768x752.png 768w, https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen-shot-2016-12-28-at-11-10-47-60x60.png 60w, https:\/\/openreflections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/screen-shot-2016-12-28-at-11-10-47-306x300.png 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Please find a table of contents for this special issue underneath.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\">Disrupting the\u00a0Humanities: Towards Posthumanities<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The\u00a0Journal of Electronic Publishing\u00a0(JEP)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Volume 19, No. 2 winter 2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Edited by Janneke Adema and Gary Hall<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><u>Contents<\/u><\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>Maria Bonn, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.200\/--note-from-jep?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>A Note From JEP<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;\">Janneke Adema and Gary Hall, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.201\/--posthumanities-the-dark-side-of-the-dark-side-of-the-digital?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Posthumanities: The Dark Side of \u201cThe Dark Side of the Digital\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>PART ONE &#8211; Creating Posthumanities:\u00a0Disrupting Humanities Methodologies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Part one of Disrupting the Humanities consists of a radical exploration of new posthumanist methodologies that take into account the agency of technologies and other non-human actants involved in modern forms of knowledge production.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Monika Bakke, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.202\/--deep-time-environments-art-and-the-materiality-of-life?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Deep Time Environments: Art And The Materiality Of Life Beyond The Human<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Lesley Gourlay, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.203\/--posthuman-texts-nonhuman-actors-mediators-and-technologies?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Posthuman Texts: Nonhuman Actors, Mediators and Technologies of Inscription<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Niamh Moore, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.204\/--humanist-methods-in-a-more-than-human-world?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>\u201cHumanist\u201d Methods in a \u201cMore-than-Human\u201d World<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Iris van der Tuin, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.205\/--reading-diffractive-reading-where-and-when-does-diffraction?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Reading Diffractive Reading: Where and When Does Diffraction Happen?<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>PART TWO &#8211; Performing Posthumanities:\u00a0Disrupting Humanities Aesthetics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Part two looks at the ways in which research is mediated and performed. It focuses on a reconsideration of the aesthetics of scholarship, including the \u201caesthetics of bookishness.\u201d In doing so it investigates the potential of more post-digital, hybrid and multimodal forms of knowledge creation.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Erin Manning, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.206\/--10-propositions-for-research-creation?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>10 Propositions for Research-Creation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>S\u00d8ren Pold, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.207\/--ink-after-print-literary-interface-criticism?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Ink After Print: Literary Interface Criticism<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li>Johanna Drucker, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.208\/--diagrammatic-form-and-performative-materiality?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Diagrammatic Form and Performative Materiality<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li>Silvio Lorusso, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.209\/--post-digital-publishing-archive-an-inventory-of-speculative?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>The Post-Digital Publishing Archive: An Inventory of Speculative Strategies<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>PART THREE &#8211; Circulating Posthumanities:\u00a0Disrupting Humanities Institutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Part three of Disrupting the Humanities provides a critical examination of how research is disseminated and shared, be it via publication to peers or to students in a pedagogical setting, adopting practices of radical openness and experimentation to challenge the normative and often print-based (neo)liberal humanist assumptions of how scholars in the humanities communicate.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"11\">\n<li>Sarah Kember, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.210\/--at-risk-the-humanities-and-the-future-of-academic-publishing?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>At Risk? The Humanities and the Future of Academic Publishing<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"12\">\n<li>Endre D\u00e1nyi, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.211\/--samizdat-lessons-three-dimensions-of-the-politics-of-self?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Samizdat Lessons: Three Dimensions of the Politics of Self-Publishing<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"13\">\n<li>Craig Saper, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.212\/--disrupting-scholarship?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Disrupting Scholarship<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"14\">\n<li>Mark Amerika, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.213\/--glitch-ontology-a-video-performance?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>Glitch Ontology (A Video Performance)<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"15\">\n<li>Karen Newman, <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/j\/jep\/3336451.0019.214\/--west-midlands-as-an-electronic-super-highway-bom?rgn=main;view=fulltext\"><em>The West Midlands as an &#8216;Electronic Super Highway&#8217;: BOM and the Emergence of New Art Infrastructures<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the\u00a0Journal of Electronic Publishing: \u2018Disrupting the\u00a0Humanities: Towards Posthumanities\u2019, edited by Gary Hall and myself. 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