In Defense of Don Giovanni: A Feminist Mythobiography

FORTHCOMING Summer 2023

Who wants to champion the figure of Don Giovanni in the time of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo? Don Giovanni is a rapist, murderer, serial seducer and liar. Can he ever be held up as a role-model or seen as a figure to be enjoyed? This is the task that the eminent Italian historian and life-long[…]

Masks

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FORTHCOMING Fall 2023

The mask is the classic disguise. But as humanity’s alter ego, it reveals as much as it conceals. Why are masks so often creepy, even outside of horror movies? Can a mask change expression while you’re wearing it? How much of someone’s self can inhabit a mask? Why would anyone make a plaster cast of[…]

The Pandemic Visual Regime: Visuality and Performativity in the COVID-19 Crisis

FORTHCOMING Summer 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has been expressed in various ways through visuality and performance, and some of its more nuanced cultural implications have taken place in a realm that goes beyond words. Through the exploration of the visual culture produced during and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Pandemic Visual Regime: Visuality and Performativity in the COVID-19[…]

Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies: Treasures from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Daryl S. Paulson Collection

Published: 12/31/2022

The philosophical ties between Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies as represented in a selection of fine art — including Daoist nature deities and immortals, Confucian scholar brushes and inkstones, and Buddhist guardian kings and compassionate bodhisattvas — have never been explicated. This catalog lays the groundwork for a serious discussion of trans-Pacific acculturation: first[…]

Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds

FORTHCOMING Winter 2023

Superhero meaning-making is a site of struggle. Superheroes (are thought to) trouble borders and normative ways of seeing and being in the world. Superhero narratives (are thought to) represent, and thereby inspire, alternative visions of the real world. The superhero genre is (thought to be) a repository for radical or progressive ideas. In the superhero[…]

all except you

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FORTHCOMING Winter 2023

“I cover Steinberg with adjectives, which are like vibrations—multiple, rapid—that this lively oeuvre arouses in me.” Roland Barthes’s consideration of the drawings of New York artist Saul Steinberg — originally an artist book posthumously published in France in 1983 — is historically important as one of the last remaining books in Barthes’s oeuvre to be[…]

From Kanye to Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love

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FORTHCOMING Winter 2023

From Kanye to Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love, with a foreword by Tommy J. Curry, can be described as a theoretical biography of Ye. In particular, the book focuses on the period from 2016 to 2021 (The Shaky-Ass Years) in an effort to think psychoanalytically about Ye’s complex subjectivity, his struggle with bipolar disorder,[…]

Ontohackers: Radical Movement Philosophy in the Age of Algorithms

FORTHCOMING Winter 2023

Ontohackers redefines what movement, worlds, and bodies are through the sense of proprioception reconceptualized as formless fluctuation field, a movement matrix that is itself also thought, and which underlies all life forms and fields including the inorganic. Our worlds are made of endless such entangled fields n-folding in never ending variation or enferance. The current[…]