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The Diary of Anna Comnena, or The Very Political Adventures of a Transgender Byzantine Princess in African Elevators

In The Diary of Anna Comnena, or The Very Political Adventures of a Transgender Byzantine Princess in African Elevators, Zamler-Carhart impersonates the 12th-century Byzantine princess and historian Anna Comnena as she comes out as trans ...

Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms

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At the beginning of the 21st century, many of our most well-known and dependable forms of keeping, managing, and representing time are losing their grasp on the real. Clocks cannot measure how societies speed up, ...

Inner Conflicts

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What should I do? What is the right thing to do? What do I do when I don’t know what to do? The difficulty in answering these questions does not come from a lack of knowledge ...

Sonic Detection: Necessary Notes for Arts and Performance

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Sonic detection is a framework for open-ended, collaborative intellectual and creative practice. Sonic Detection is situated at the intersection of sound studies, performance studies, and interdisciplinary writing. It emerges from a decade-long working partnership between ...

punctum books is an independent open-access publisher dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry and writing across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. We curate books that are genre-bending and paradigm-shifting and also experiment with the styles and forms of intellectual writing. Our authors understand that where they publish is just as important as the content of their work, and that sharing their work with the global commons is vital and necessary.