
Ecocide and Inscription, vol. 1
Black Ops: Petrolepathy, Escaped Slaves, Cinemacide - a Tele-mnemonics for the After-Times
Tom Cohen(Author)
Open Humanities Press
Published on 15. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-78542-147-1 (ISBN)
Description
This first volume of Ecocide and Inscription: Black Ops outlines new methods for reading in the "After-times" - our current moment when tipping points have passed and cascade effects accelerate. Bold and wide-ranging, this study charts new territory at the intersection of literary theory, philosophy, and environmental thought.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
64 colour
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
647 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78542-147-1 (9781785421471)
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Tom Cohen is Emeritus Professor of English and co-director of the Institute on Critical Climate Change at the University at Albany. He is the author of Anti-Mimesis From Plato to Hitchcock (Cambridge 1994), Ideology and Inscription: Cultural Studies after Benjamin, De Man, and Bahktin (Cambridge 1998), and Hitchcock's Cryptonymies, vols. 1 & 2 (UMinn 2005). His most recent titles, co-authored with Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller, are Theory and the Disappearing Future (Routledge 2011), and its companion volume, Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (OHP 2016). He is also the editor of Derrida and the Humanities (Cambridge 2003) and co-editor of Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory (UMinn 2001).