I talked to my publisher this week and got news that Alien Phenomenology is scheduled to land in the warehouse by March 7. It should be shipping to booksellers immediately thereafter. If you preorder from Amazon.com, you’ll see it ship out that very week. While I can’t make any promises, sometimes these dates move up thanks to happy accident, so it might even become available sooner. I’ve gone ahead and started shilling the book in the promotional space at right. It’s currently around US$13 on Amazon.com.
In addition to a firmer publication date, Minnesota has also published the jacket endorsement, which I paste below.
“This book needs to be read by many different audiences since it is not only fascinating but also of considerable significance. As the task of thinking through things as actors in their own right according to Ian Bogost’s maxim ‘all things exist, yet they do not exist equally’ becomes a real intellectual project so the implications of this stance start to multiply. In turn, they begin to produce the outlines of a landscape in which things aren’t just are. Rather, they form an active cartography which is always and everywhere–an alien ontography.”
—Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick
And finally, as I hinted recently, an unusual, special hardcover edition of the book will follow, hopefully during the summer. It attempts to embrace the theory of carpentry I describe within, upon the very object that describes it.
Comments
Joseph C Goodson
Excellent news, Ian. Can’t wait to get a copy.
Adrian Forest
Thrift is quite an endorsement. I’d be interested to know what you think the relationship is between your own philosophical work and Thrift’s non-representational theory. It certainly seems to me like your both working in the same general domain.
Ian Bogost
Adrian, yes, the Thrift endorsement is huge and I’m enormously grateful for it. To answer your question, I think one of the obvious similarities is related to the shift from representation to practice in the humanities.
Christopher Schaberg
What a great endorsement, Ian! I am imagining that the special hardcover edition might be a pop-up book, of sorts…
Paul Ennis
The cover is brilliant. I will be ordering my copy as soon as it is out!
Ian Bogost
Paul, that reminds me that I should check on UK, Canada, and Australia availability.
Paul Caplan
Yeh, update on the Brit version, please and make sure you save some of the ‘specials’ for us over here!
Ian Bogost
Chris, the special hardcover edition will be much weirder than that!
Carl
Any ETA for the Kindle version?
Ian Bogost
Best option to UK and AUS, for now at least, is Book Depository US, here.
Ian Bogost
Carl, the Kindle edition should be available right around the same time as the print. The uncertainty here has to do with Amazon rather than Minnesota, since the former is responsible for a part of the Kindle release process, even though they make their customers believe that they aren’t.
So, more simply put, Kindle on the same general timeframe.
Ian Bogost
Ok, UK and AUS stock should be available by early April. Until then, Book Depository is your best bet (see link in a comment above).
Nadia
Excellent news, Ian. I will share it with my friends.
Carl
Thanks for the response. Looking forward to the book.