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Kern

Forthcoming

Proposed as a collection of imaginary logos for the corporate sponsors of Borges's Library of Babel, Kern balances on a precipice between the visual and nonsensical, offering poems just out of meaning's reach. Using dry-transfer ...

Burning Diagrams in Anthropology: An Inverse Museum

Forthcoming

Burning Diagrams in Anthropology examines the use of diagrams in anthropology to re-imagine how we think about, and challenge, intellectual histories. Highlighting the impossibility of escaping what different disciplines and institutions deem to be “past,” ...

Speaking with the Dead: An Ethnography of Extrahuman Experience

Forthcoming

If you tried speaking with a dead person and they gave you a clear response, how would you react? In Speaking with the Dead, Matt Tomlinson describes his experiences training as a medium with a ...

The Tales

Stitching together a post-apocalyptic history from the scraps of fairy tales, war memorials, hunting songs, and disparate scholarship, Jessica Bozek's The Tales traces the violence that humans inflict upon one another. As the central narrative ...

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