ABOUT
Where Ideas
Meet the Making
of the Self.
Aletheia Editions is an independent publishing imprint dedicated to examining the historical formation of modern subjectivity and the evolving structures of power that shape thought, knowledge, and self-understanding. Our books bring into view the often-invisible frameworks that condition how we perceive ourselves, the questions we consider thinkable, and the boundaries of what can be known.
Drawing on philosophy, history, architecture, and the social sciences, our publications trace the genealogies of power that have produced modern forms of selfhood, while also engaging critically with the contemporary technologies that continue to reconfigure human experience. Through this work, Aletheia Editions seeks to illuminate the shifting architectures of knowledge, agency, and the self in modernity.
The imprint currently focuses on titles authored by Martin Neilan, whose research bridges architectural theory, continental philosophy, and critical studies of technology, including artificial intelligence.
His first book, After the Human: Artificial Intelligence, Subjectivity, and the Future of Knowledge, investigates how AI is transforming human subjectivity, tracing the movement from the “age of the Mirror” to the “age of the Node.”
Looking ahead, the imprint will continue to explore how the intersections of history, technology, and cultural expectation shape the making of the modern self through both non-fiction and fiction titles.
Another forthcoming non-fiction book, The Perfectible Self: From Medieval Confession to Our Digital Lives, and What Comes Next, examines the genealogy of self-optimization and its cultural, ethical, and political consequences. It forms a compelling introduction to optimisation culture and its history for the novice, and situates our current challenges with social media, the quantified self, and the pathologies that emanate from the people and society we find ourselves becoming.
Neilan’s first fiction title, tentatively named The Inhabitant, is a work in progress. It brings together the philosophical and the experiential through a layering of motifs, symbols, phenomena, and dialogue, whilst exploiting a deeper understanding of how architecture both shapes and confines us, both as a technological enframing and actor that subjectivises. The book continues to trace the historical conditions that have produced our modern selves, while opening onto the possibilities of who we might yet become.
Stay tuned…
