Progressive Geographies

The Speculative Realism series at Edinburgh will be releasing quite a number of books in 2014, but we’re starting out in the spring with an impressive hat trick of books likely to make a big impact. They are available for pre-order now on Amazon, where you can also view the interesting cover designs.

Levi R. Bryant, Onto-Cartography

Tristan Garcia,Form and Object

Adrian Johnston, Adventures in Transcendental Materialism

As series editor, I have naturally read all three books very thoroughly more than once, and all three will prove to be well worth the cover price.

These aren’t up on Amazon yet, but are coming soon from Open Humanities Press.

First up, we have Joseph Carew’s Ontological Catastrophe, a very provocative study of Žižek’s concept of the same name. Lots of German Idealism as well in this book, whose existence already seems to be somewhat known in Žižek circles. Tammy Lu has outdone herself with the cover design this time.

A few months after that we will have Plastic Bodies, the third book of Tom Sparrow, who has already emerged as one of the most productive authors of his generation in continental philosophy. This one will have a preface by Cathérine Malabou, who seems quite impressed by Saprow’s specific use of her favorite concept: plasticity.