Imprint: 3Ecologies Books
Published: 07/08/2021
Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: An Actual Occasion is the third in a trilogy of novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. An Actual Occasion revisits the viral transitioning of the becoming rat-woman from Last Year at Betty and Bob’s: A Novelty (Vol. 1 in the[…]
Imprint: Advanced Methods
Published: 08/05/2021
Working from a speculative, more-than-human ontological position, Inefficient Mapping: A Protocol for Attuning to Phenomena presents a new, experimental cartographic practice and non-representational methodological protocol that attunes to the subaltern genealogies of sites and places, proposing a wayfaring practice for traversing the land founded on an ethics of care. As a methodological protocol, inefficient mapping[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 02/04/2021
Ammiel Alcalay’s groundbreaking work, After Jews and Arabs, published in 1993, redrew the geographic, political, cultural, and emotional map of relations between Jews and Arabs in the Levantine/Mediterranean world over a thousand-year period. Based on over a decade of research and fieldwork in many disciplines—including history and historiography; anthropology, ethnography, and ethnomusicology; political economy and[…]
Published: 05/13/2021
Over the past ten years, the journal Organs Everywhere (Œ) has promoted conversations that approach architectural design from the edges of the discipline—testing its boundaries, technologies, methods and (e)valuation systems, and keeping them unstable. It has valued transdisciplinary, speculative, and irreverent explorations over strict publishing formats and academic purity, promoting a profanatory and open-ended ethos.[…]
Published: 09/16/2021
Follow for Now, Vol. 2 picks up and pushes beyond the first volume with a more diverse set of interviews. The intent of the first collection was to bring together voices from across disciplines and to cross-pollinate ideas. At the time, social media wasn’t crisscrossing all of the lines and certain categories held a bit[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
Published: 07/29/2021
There is indeed a “miracle” in the 1970 film Wanda. This film has survived, despite decades of neglect, to emerge into the fuliginous light of an era that may just be ready to strain at grasping its harsh and brutal truths—truths that reveal the imbrication of the psychic in the social and the experiential in[…]
Published: 06/17/2021
Cinema’s Doppelgängers is a counterfactual history of the cinema—or, perhaps, a work of speculative fiction in the guise of a scholarly history of film and movie guide. That is, it’s a history of the movies written from an alternative unfolding of historical time—a world in which neither the Bolsheviks nor the Nazis came to power,[…]
Imprint: tiny collections
Published: 08/27/2021
No one thinks straight. At least no one remembers straight. But ten years ago, things were different, weren’t they? Roland Barthes once wrote that color in a photograph is like make-up on a corpse. No one is fooled. In anarchic denial of convenient truths, a young international couple meet and marry on a small Mediterranean[…]