Forthcoming

Aesthetic Anthropology: Theory and Analysis of Pop and Conceptual Art in America

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2026

In Aesthetic Anthropology, Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz makes the case that anthropology — long focused on “primitive” art and non-Western ritual — possesses untapped theoretical resources for analyzing the art of contemporary Western societies. Drawing on structuralism, symbolic anthropology, and the sociology of knowledge, Ravicz constructs a cross-cultural framework for understanding art as a system of[…]

The Phonemes

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FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

In The Phonemes, Frances Richard investigates perceptually distinct units of experience, such as sounds, energy surges, and scraps of national and natural history, to create episodes of disruption and dissolution. Organized into sequences that move from seismic notation and wave-form typography to lyric encounters with meteors, snakes, glaciers, and the domestic sublime, the poems break[…]

The Fire Trees

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

The Fire Trees studies the sense experience of the body and mind as it relates to wildness and nature—how do we embrace sensualism, pleasure, and joy as a daily practice in the company of our transience? And when we do, what new awareness might we embrace? How do the places we inhabit or occupy influence[…]

Feminism, Activism, Video: Carole Roussopoulos in the 1970s

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2026

In 1968, following the largest general strike in French history, and the inauguration of a student and worker movement that built on and intersected with anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activism, a revolutionary new tool arrived on the French market: the Sony Portapak. The Portapak was a battery-powered, portable, self-contained electronic video recording system that enabled a[…]

The Queer Life of Riddles: (Re)Translations from the Exeter Book

FORTHCOMING Winter 2027

Should we expect a panoply of loquacious objects to chatter on about their experiences exactly as we would? This collection of creative (re)translations, The Queer Life of Riddles, explores the ways these thousand-year-old lyrics lay athwart our expectations, veering in their own directions and refusing to conform to our canons of respectability. How they may[…]

American Incest: How White Supremacy Became White Lawlessness

FORTHCOMING Fall 2026

American Incest takes its readers on a whirlwind, barn-burning, eye-opening yet largely uncharted tour of America. Consider these examples: The first American novel was an incest novel, published in 1789 and intended as a rival document to the US Constitution. The most famous American painting is a painting about incest. The most influential American movie[…]

The Parasocialists: React Streamers, Video Essayists, Debate Bros, Podcasters, and the Cultural Politics of the Online Left

FORTHCOMING Summer 2026

Good, accessible political commentary has always been hard to come by, but the situation today seems worse than ever. Mainstream media is pure propaganda, alternative media remains resolutely alternative, and the once-wide expanse of social media has been narrowed to a handful of platforms governed by attention-maximizing algorithms that reward no one more than the[…]

In Practice: From Higher Education to Liberatory Transformation

FORTHCOMING Winter 2027

In Practice: From Higher Education to Liberatory Transformation examines the relationship between settler institutions of higher education and the settler state and the carceral logics that both produce the border politics of university campuses and police our disciplines, discourses, and communication styles. It also investigates how these structures impact pedagogical and curricular practice. It is[…]