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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