Imprint: Brainstorm Books
FORTHCOMING Summer 2027
If every article is a word and every outfit a statement, then the psychoanalyst is never silent. Much is made of clothes and style by psychoanalysis, but little is said of how psychoanalysts style themselves. Fashion inundates the world with sexual concern, yet psychoanalysis is… a bit repressed on the practitioners’ manners of dress. If[…]
Imprint: Fluxus and Company
FORTHCOMING Summer 2026
Zen for Record gathers five essays around Ken Friedman’s 1966 Fluxus event score instructing the production of “a phonograph record with no sound on it.” Originating as a found object, the work has migrated across six decades and multiple incarnations, from an unrealized concept to the LP edition that occasions this volume. These essays accompany[…]
Imprint: Fluxus and Company
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[…]
Imprint: Les Figues
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[…]
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[…]
Imprint: MAI: Feminism and Culture
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]