[spectre] The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame - new open access book

[Gary Hall]

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of the
first title in our new sub-series, *Critical Climate Chaos: The
Nethercene*, edited by Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook.

*Sigi Jöttkandt's /The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame/* attends
to the ‘lettrocalamity’ that occurs when literature and cinema collide
in Vladimir Nabokov’s work. Jöttkandt suspends the long-held critical
investment in Nabokov’s authorial control to focus on another principle
of representational agency making incursions into his books. Tracing the
subterranean network of cross-lingual puns, homophonies, and technical
overflows of writing to a cinaesthetic signature system, Jöttkandt
recasts the vexed question of Nabokov’s relation to psychoanalysis. A
pioneer of too-close reading, Nabokov offers himself, Jöttkandt argues,
as the tipping point of perceptual and epistemological systems that are
in the process of devouring themselves. The ensuing ‘Nabokov effect’ is
both an assault on teleological models, and an opening onto other forms
of reading and listening, which Jöttkandt argues was always latent in
psychoanalysis. In this book, Nabokov emerges as /the/ writer for
humanity’s endgame, architect of a post- interpretive complex that opens
up broader questions concerning our ability to read him or, indeed any
writer, today.

Like all Open Humanities Press books, */The Nabokov Effect /*is
available open access (it can be downloaded for free) and from online
bookstores worldwide:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-nabokov-effect/

Warm wishes,
Sigi, David, Gary

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Author Bio
Sigi Jöttkandt works at the intersection of literature and
psychoanalysis. She is Associate Professor of English at the University
of New South Wales, and co-founding Director of Open Humanities Press.
The author of /Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical
Aesthetic/ (2005), and /First Love: A Phenomenology of the One/ (2010),
and /The Nabokov Effect/ (2024) she also edits /S Journal of the Circle
for Lacanian Ideology Critique./ See http://lineofbeauty.org/.

Series

The Nethercene: Ecocide and Inscription is published as a sub-series of
CCC2 Irreversibility, edited by Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/ccc2-irreversibility/

'Taking in the vortices and reversals of the “post” pandemic anomie, The
Nethercene sub-series responds to the exponential accelerations of the
twin spirals of climate disaggregations and its accelerating race with
A.I. to see which will outpace the other’s extinction promise - the
“singularities” of tipping points passed dueling with a
de-anthropomorphized system that refuses face... '


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Other recent open access titles from Open Humanities Press include:

The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought by David A.
Collings:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-rubble-of-culture/

Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation, edited by James
Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/articulating-media/

Data Farms, edited by Tsvetelina Hristova, Brett Neilson and Ned
Rossiter: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/data-farms/

Geological Filmmaking by Sasha Litvintseva:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/geological-filmmaking/

Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence, edited by
Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/volumetric-regimes/

Glitch Poetics by Nathan Allen Jones:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/glitch-poetics/

Más allá del derecho de autor, editado by Alberto López Cuenca and
Renato Bermúdez Dini:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/mas-alla-del-derecho-de-autor/

Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative, edited by Bernard Stiegler and the
Internation Collective:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/bifurcate/

La naturaleza como acontecimiento: El señuelo de lo possible by Didier
Debaise:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-naturaleza-como-acontecimiento/


Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era,
edited by Bill Balaskas and Carolina Rito:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/fabricating-publics/

Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene:
Archive, edited by Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder and
Astrida Neimanis:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/feminist-queer-anticolonial-propositions-for-hacking-the-anthropocene/


The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented
Ontology by Gabriel Yoran:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/

La magie réaliste: objets, ontologie et causalité by Timothy Morton:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/

hyposubjects: on becoming human by Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/

--
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/

Website:http://www.garyhall.info

Latest:

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'Is Big Publishing Killing the Academic Author?':http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2023/11/20/is-big-publishing-killing-the-academic-author.html

Interview: (open access) ‘How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’:https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/OA%20chapters/Briel_9781802076622_ch5_OA-1687267442.pdf

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