For too long, the Earth has been used to ground thought instead of bending it; such grounding leaves the planet as nothing but a stage for phenomenology, deconstruction, and other forms of anthropocentric philosophy. In far too much continental philosophy, the Earth is a cold dead place enlivened only by human thought—either as a thing to be exploited, or as an object of nostalgia. Geophilosophy seeks instead to question the ground of thinking itself, the relation of the inorganic to the capacities and limits of thought. This book constructs an eclectic variant of geophilosophy through engagements with digging machines, cyclones and volcanoes, secret vessels, nuclear waste, giant worms, decay, hell, demon souls, subterranean cities, black suns, and xenoarcheaology, via continental theory (Nietzsche, Schelling, Deleuze, et alia) and various cultural objects such as horror films, videogames, and weird Lovecraftian fictions, with special attention to Speculative Realism and the work of Reza Negarestani. In a time where the earth as a whole is threatened by ecological collapse, On an Ungrounded Earth generates a perversely realist account of the earth as a dynamic engine materially invading and upsetting our attempts to reduce it to the ground beneath our feet.

On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy

Politics & Social Sciences

Woodard, Ben

Philosophy

Punctum Books

A collection of philosophical and critical essays on the television series True Detective. "Traditionally, the detective genre deals with the problem of epistemology – how to know something that one doesn't know. There are some things we cannot know, and some things we should not know. Sometimes clues just give way to more clues, and epistemic tedium rules the day. These essays reveal knowledge becoming an enigma to itself, revealing the brilliant futility of the epistemological project." – Eugene Thacker, author of In The Dust of This Planet "The television event of the year - I would say many years - is without doubt True Detective. One deserving of forensic, unflinching, and unrelenting philosophical treatment." – Simon Critchley "The most intelligent series in TV history has opened strange crypts for explorers. This excellent essay collection reveals just how far the dark tunnels lead. Let it coax you from the comforts of death and fear, into detection of the guttering nightmare that is life, coldly seen." – Nick Land CONTENTS I. Black Stars Gary J. Shipley – Monster at the End: Pessimism’s Locked Rooms and Impossible Crimes Edia Connole – Contemplating the Crucifixion: Cohle and Divine Gloom Nicola Masciandaro – I Am Not Supposed To Be Here: Birth and Mystical Detection II. Separate From Itself Fintan Neylan – The Labour of the Pessimist: Detecting Expiration’s Artifice Paul J. Ennis – The Atmospherics of Consciousness Ben Woodard – Nothing Grows in the Right Direction: Scaling the Life of the Negative III. There Was A Videotape Niall McCann – True Detective, Jean-Luc Godard and Our Image Culture: ‘This May Well be Heaven, this Hell Smells the Same’ Daniel Fitzpatrick – ‘True Dick’ . . . The Accelerated Acceptance and Premature Canonisation of True Detective IV. It’s Just One Story Scott Wilson – The Nonsense of Detection: Truth Between Science and the Real Erin K. Stapleton – The Corpse is the Territory: The Body of Dora Kelly Lange in True Detective Caoimhe Doyle &amp; Katherine Foyle – The Flat Devil Net: Mapping Quantum Narratives in True Detective Daniel Colucciello Barber – Affect Has No Story V. And Closure–No, No, No Dominic Fox – koyntly bigyled Charlie Blake, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Edia Connole, Paul J. Ennis, Gary J. Shipley – Bird Trap Edge to Edge Caoimhe Doyle &amp; Katherine Foyle – The Chole Story

True Detection

Biographies & Memoirs

Shipley, Gary J.

Masciandaro, Nicola

Connole, Edia

Fitzpatrick, Daniel

WILSON, SCOTT

Neylan, Fintan

Ennis, Paul J

McCann, Niall

Stapleton, Erin K

True Crime

Schism

An eyeless body. A menacing stranger. And a tangled mystery.It’s the summer of 1923 and two cousins hunting for hidden gold stumble on an decayed body. Fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace is convinced the death was murder and drags his older cousin into a harrowing struggle against a shadowy group. Not even attempts on their lives can stop the boys from relentlessly pursuing the mystery. But when their curiosity leads them to investigate a derelict barge, what they find is bigger and more dangerous than anything they could have imagined.A STAIRWAY TO DANGER is a fun-filled thriller with humor and adventure in a Twain-like setting.

A Stairway To Danger

Ben Woodard

Explosions, sabotage, caves, deadly warnings and a dangerous red-haired man. Imagine The Hardy Boys meet Tom Sawyer. Add a layer of teen angst and excitement plus a mysterious group trying to stop a new dam while stirring up racial tensions. That's STEPS INTO DARKNESS, the next book in the Shakertown Adventure Series by Ben Woodard. Fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace again makes plans to escape the small town in the 1923 Kentucky countryside. The town that won't let him forget his past, when a horrific event changes his mind. He teams with his cousin Will and young FBI agent Rick Sweeney to try to solve a perplexing mystery. Attempts on the boys' lives and a bewildering list of suspects keep them on edge and confused. An old man gives them a clue that leads to a false accusation and embarrassment until they discover the real villain, and then wish they hadn't. STEPS INTO DARKNESS is a fun, page-turning thriller with a hint of romance that delivers adventure and mystery while exploring the fears of a teen living with a frightful memory.

Steps Into Darkness: A Shakertown Adventure (Shakertown Adventure Series)

Famine. A giant eagle. And a boy who would be prey. A storyteller weaves an adventure of a Native American boy challenged to save a family of eagles or become their meal. With famine looming for animals and humans, the boy, Naa'ki, labors to feed the eagles and learn their wisdom. As a reward for his help, he begs the eagles to teach him to fly. Naa'ki battles fear and wind in his struggle to soar with the eagles. And he attempts to convince his people that the disappearance of the salmon is due to their actions. To succeed, he will have to give up his future. The story combines myth, environmental awareness, and the concept of working together. It is a short middle grade novel with illustrations.Nomination for Best Children Literature Award on April 30, 2013 from eFestival of Words.Winner! Best Cover Design Award from ewords4kids.

The Boy Who Flew With Eagles

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Hundreds of donuts…whizzing by. Every kind she could imagine. And Elizabeth had to have one. But when she has MORE than one, strange and hilarious things happen. A picture book with extras including jokes, hidden features, and a word search. And the entire book can be used as a coloring book.

A Problem With Donuts

Literature & Fiction

Miller-Martin Press

Bubbles is causing a stink. And the other frogs are not happy. They tell him to stop bubbling the water or he'll have to leave Frog Pond. But he can't help it. He's been bubbling since he was a little tadpole. Will Bubbles have to leave Frog Pond? Where will he go? And what happens when danger comes? Find out in this fun picture book for all ages.

Bubbles

Animals

A quarterly literary magazine published by Hypertrophic Press.

Hypertrophic Literary - Fall 2017

Daulerio, Francis

Reynolds, Meg

Press, Hypertrophic

Ulrich, Cathy

Brody, Lori Sambol

J., Moira

Cardin, Kendra

Chaffin, Rachel

Arra, Elle

Literary

Hypertrophic Press

Whispering, dark trees in an ancient Irish forest rustle in the moonless night. Whispering always whispering. Declan’s wild, loud little brother is lost out there—somewhere—and a bent, gnarled old woman tells Declan that he must go into the forest . The woman's eyes haunt him. “You must find him,” she whispers. “And the trees will guide you.” Whispers of trees—a spine-tingling, page-turning thriller with hints of Irish myth that delivers a multicultural adventure.

Whispers Of Trees (Mythic Adventures Collection)

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space and the Volition of Thought (New Perspectives in Ontology)

Using Schelling's philosophy, Ben Woodard examines how an expanded form of naturalism changes how we conceive of the division between thought and world, mathematics and motion, sense and dynamics, experiment and materiality, as well as speculation and pragmatism.Schelling is a philosopher fundamentally concerned with the problem of nature and how philosophy has, historically, ignored or reduced nature's importance. For Schelling, philosophy is impossible without a robust conception of nature, something which is lacking from most contemporary forms of philosophy both Analytic and Continental. Nature, in Schelling's eyes, is not simply the great outdoors, or some authentic pastoral realm, but the various powers, processes and tendencies which run through biology, chemistry, physics and the very possibility of thought itself.

Edinburgh University Press

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