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NOW PUBLISHED: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
It is not normal today to think of “inanimate objects” as possessing a lively capacity to do things to us and with us, although it is quite normal to experience them as such. Every day we encounter the power of possessions, tools, clutter, toys, commodities, keepsakes, trash. Why this tendency to forget thing-power, to overlook // Read more…
critical animal studies, Jane Bennett, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, new materialisms, object-oriented ontology, post-humanism, vibrant materialism
Like a Radio Left On / On the Outskirts of Identical Cities: Living (with) Fradenburg
Figure 1. Aranye Fradenburg delivering her plenary address at the 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, Austin, Texas [Nov. 2010] [note: punctum books will be publishing a collection of essays by Aranye Fradenburg, Staying Alive, in late 2012/early 2013] by EILEEN JOY . . . obscure / forces are at work / // Read more…
Aranye Fradenburg, care, Chaucer, healing, humanities, intersubjectivity, liberal arts, networks, neuroscience, play, psychoanalysis, signifiers
Join Us for Book Week: Miguel Abreu Gallery [April 18-24]
by EILEEN JOY It’s springtime in New York City [and elsewhere, of course], and what better time than to wander into a gallery temporarily dressing itself up as a bookstore and browse some titles from the not-so-secret underworld of independent para-academic publishers? Miguel Abreu Gallery, with Sequence Press, will be opening their doors as a // Read more…
Help Wanted: Steal This University
by EILEEN JOY What enables us to risk change is the feeling that we are understood and (therefore) accompanied. –L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, “Living Chaucer” Jeffrey Cohen blogged at In The Middle a few weeks ago about the Exemplaria conference, held in early February at University of Texas-Austin, on “Surface, Symptom, and the State of // Read more…
Speculations Journal: New Website
[image on journal's banner is an artistic rendering of a neuron fractal, by Anthony Mattox: Interaction Design + Digital Art, 2009] punctum books is happy to announce that Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism has a new website, which you can visit HERE, and where you can access free PDF downloads of the first two // Read more…
