things in press

With a number of pieces just published, and several others just abandoned due to excessive publisher and/or editor delays, here’s a list of what’s already in press and soon to come out, for any readers who may be interested.

Books

•The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE. With Bruno Latour and Peter Erdélyi. (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, forthcoming 2011.) (proofs corrected; in press)

•The Quadruple Object. (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, forthcoming 2011.) (proofs corrected; in press)

The Quadruple Object is totally in press. All sets of proofs are corrected, the cover design is approved, and it’s now completely out of my hands.

As for The Prince and the Wolf, there have been unlucky incidents that lead to it being forgotten for months at a time, so we are still waiting on one more set of proofs to correct. But it’s essentially ready.

Book Chapters

•“Objects are the Root of All Philosophy,” in Penelope Harvey et al. (eds.), Objects and Materials. A Routledge Companion. (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2012.)

•“Heidegger and the Birth of Continental Realism.” In The Ontic Return: The Current Epochal Shift from Meaning to Being. Edited by James A. Ford. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2011.)

•“On Interface: Nancy’s Weights and Masses” in Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Politics, Art, and Sense. Edited by Peter Gratton and Marie-Ève Morin. (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2011.)

Both of the latter two were written in around March 2008, right after I returned from my Amsterdam sabbatical. It’s frustrating that neither is already in print, since both projects looked like speedy ones at the time I agreed to them.

The one on Nancy is largely critical. The Heidegger piece is pitched toward an analytic philosophy audience, because Ford’s anthology is more or less the analytic version of The Speculative Turn; it has a similar premise: a turn away from language and back toward the real. Manuel DeLanda and I are the only two authors to appear in both collections. I guess we’re “analytic enough” after all.

The first piece on the list is my Manchester keynote address from September 2009.

Articles

•“Realism Without Materialism,” SubStance, forthcoming 2011.

•“Plastic Surgery for the Monadology: Leibniz via Heidegger,” Cultural Studies Review, forthcoming 2011.

•“Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter,” new formations, #71 forthcoming 2010.

The Bennett review will be out in a month or so, probably still with a 2010 copyright.

The Leibniz/Heidegger piece originated in a talk I gave at Duquesne way back in 2005, though it’s been revised quite a bit. Should appear soon in that Australian journal, where I already published an article on Latour in 2007 or so.

The first one is essentially my Zagreb lecture from 2009. SubStance says it should be out towards spring.

There’s a lot more in the pipeline than that. That’s just the stuff that, if I died tomorrow, would get into print in final form nonetheless. The other projects are at various stages of still needing my living assistance.