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[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 02/27/2026
Have you ever wondered what makes you wake up in the morning? Why not just lay down, stay, and eventually disappear? What is the wanting, the energy, and the grace of liveliness? Desire is at the core of liveliness, and this book explains why it is so. Desire is much more than a mere appendix[…]
Imprint: MAI: Feminism and Culture
Published: 02/03/2026
Can we think of an ethics that originates in corporeality, and not in codified or symbolic systems? In Corporeal Aesth/ethics, the body resurfaces as a central category of Bracha L. Ettinger’s theory and art, as well as an interpretive key that allows us to assume ethical responsibility for an Other who is not abstract, or[…]
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 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[…]
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[…]
Imprint: Brainstorm Books
Published: 01/20/2026
Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, Marilyn Monroe, milk-carton images of missing children, orgies, Mickey Mouse, zombies, teenage slang, shock therapy, and surf music, The Case of California offers a dizzying psycho-history of the twentieth century as crystallized in[…]
Published: 12/22/2025
Poet, novelist, translator, scholar, and critical essayist extraordinaire, Ammiel Alcalay’s intrepid work has always moved across geographic, chronological, political, and linguistic borders. “FOLLOW THE PERSON”: Archival Encounters gathers a dizzying array of texts by Alcalay written over the past fifteen years, all of them having something to do with archival materials. In Alcalay’s case, however,[…]