Published: 10/28/2021
Broad in scope, Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose presents an overview of the different paths taken by artists and artist collectives as they navigate their way from formative experiences into pedagogy. Focusing on the realms inside and outside the academy (the places and persons involved in post-secondary education) and the multiple forms and[…]
Imprint: Department of Eagles
Published: 12/02/2021
Resistance features a selection of overtly non-conformist positions in the contemporary visual arts scene of Albania vis-à-vis the most recent social, political, and economic turmoils in the Western Balkans—a region marked by the dark side of political governances that have remained “democratic” in their outward appearance only (especially toward the European Union), while dramatically leaning[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 06/02/2022
In the face of rising authoritarianism and on the heels of urgent struggle, autonomy calls to us. How might we excavate the theory and history of autonomous politics to arrive at new possibilities for radical democracy and the radical imaginary? How can we rethink the ways in which artistic autonomy is theorized and practiced beyond[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 04/20/2023
Chaucer’s Comic Providence presents readings of five of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that dramatize sexual division and the lack of rapport between the sexes. These readings are founded on the psychoanalytic thinking of Jacques Lacan in his rereading of Freud and are motivated by Thormann’s conviction that Chaucer understood what psychoanalysis would come to study as[…]
Published: 03/17/2022
The critical links and dependencies between language and thought formed a major new exploration of twentieth-century philosophy. Languages nuance our ideas and perceptions. From various angles and in different ways, Heidegger, Derrida, and Wittgenstein forged new ways of understanding the relationship between our views of the external world and our culturally and linguistically pre-determined modes[…]
Imprint: 3Ecologies Books
Published: 07/07/2022
Pitch and Revelation is the first book-length study of the poetry, prose, and dramatic literature of the African American poet Jay Wright (b. 1934). The authors premise their reading on joy as a foundational philosophical concept. In this, they follow Spinoza, who understood joy as an affect necessary for the construction of an intellectual love[…]
Imprint: Gracchi Books
Published: 02/17/2022
The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted remarkably little attention. The Christian Economy[…]
Published: 07/28/2022
Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty tackles “legacy” issues of intellectual property rights (IPR) in artistic production and academic scholarship and proposes a category or class of works that has no relation to IPR nor to proprietary regimes of copyright and academic privilege. Keeney’s book is a structuralist argument for establishing new forms of[…]