Sonic Detection: Necessary Notes for Arts and Performance

Published: 04/17/2026

Sonic Detection is part sonic noir, part performance document, and part critical investigation of listening at the margins for readers interested in prospecting the boundaries of performance studies, sound studies, and interdisciplinary writing. The book opens with a group of sonic detectives (exact number unknown) who investigate the mystery of an as-yet-unidentified event that leaves[…]

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[…]

Dutch Afro Becomings: Hybrid Being in Black Art and Culture

Published: 03/04/2026

In Dutch Afro Becomings, artist, curator, and researcher Charl Landvreugd argues that we do not yet have a language to understand Dutch Afro-ness, and that it is insufficient to rely on the discourses developed in African American, Black British, or Caribbean cultural theory alone. This critical monograph on continental European Black art and cultural history[…]

Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies

Published: 02/23/2026

Bringing together perception, ecology, community, lingual value, and quantum life, Imagining What We Don’t Know: Creative Theory and Critical Bodies presents twenty-four essays and theory poems that blend interpretive neologisms — wild dialectics, distributed centrality, membranism, deformance, bioautography, transplace, soft text, and more — with readings of visionary philosophers and the art and writing of[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Ontohackers: Radical Movement Philosophy in the Age of Extinctions and Algorithms, Part III: Metahistories of Movement: Philosophies in Becoming

Published: 10/24/2025

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 neverending variation or enferance. The current planetary[…]