Imprint: Brainstorm Books
FORTHCOMING Winter 2023
From Kanye to Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love, which begins with a foreword by Tommy J. Curry, can be described as a theoretical biography of Ye. I particularly focus on the 5-year period from 2016 to 2021 (The Shaky-Ass Years) in an effort to think psychoanalytically about his complex subjectivity, his struggle with manic-depression,[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2022
For every generic type of monster—ghost, demon, vampire, dragon—there are countless locally specific manifestations, with their own names, traits, and appearances. Such monsters populate all corners of the globe haunting their humans wherever they live. Living with Monsters is a collection of fourteen short pieces of ethnographic fiction (and a more academically inclined introduction and[…]
Imprint: Department of Eagles
Published: 04/08/2022
Mineral Policies provides a record of an art residency organized by the ZETA Center for Contemporary Art in the mining region of Bulqiza in northeastern Albania, where four artists and activists from Albania, Blerta Hoçia, Diana Malaj, Pleurad Xhafa, and Ergin Zaloshnja, created a collective body of works in close proximity with the local miners,[…]
FORTHCOMING Fall 2022
This book of poems about fake news written by diverse project participants is foremost an invitation and invocation for you to participate, with others, in an experiment in knowing and working differently with the internet: Fake News Poetry Workshops. Between 2018 and 2020, Alexandra Juhasz participated in more than twenty workshops around the world. These[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
FORTHCOMING Summer 2022
Blending literary analysis and memoir, Something More Splendid Than Two is at once an excavation of intergenerational wounds, a dance number, a poem, and a fraught love letter from son to father that disrupts the dominant narratives surrounding the life and myth of Joaquín Murrieta. In the Mexican American imaginary, the legend of Joaquín Murrieta[…]
FORTHCOMING Summer 2022
A Credible Utopia: Essays on Selected Films of Werner Schroeter offers a unique and personal insight into Schroeter’s cinematic universe. Many of the films discussed in this book are those upon which Schroeter’s worldwide reputation rests. Der Bomberpilot is an absurdist comedy, The Death of Maria Malibran is a film about ecstatic redemption in death,[…]
Imprint: Advanced Methods
FORTHCOMING Spring 2022
What does it mean to “speak for the social” in projects of technical and infrastructural change? This is the problem that the contributors to Speaking for the Social: A Catalogue of Methods set out to explore through a series of creative interventions that reimagine the role for qualitative social science in understanding and shaping design[…]
Imprint: Dead Letter Office
FORTHCOMING Summer 2022
The Angels Won’t Help You is a book about the uniqueness and primacy of help, particularly in relation to care, love, and caritas. It relies heavily on psychoanalytic and philosophical accounts of help and care and finds that help requires the establishment of a real relationship between persons, where help is given and received in[…]