The Ruins of Solitude

FORTHCOMING Spring 2024

While we conventionally define solitude as the absence of relation, The Ruins of Solitude takes up solitude as a rubric of legible subjectivity that regulates what it means to interact with and make meaning within a material world. Working to imagine an alternative to solitude, the book considers how this mode of embodiment intersects with[…]

Works for Works, Book 2: “No Rights”

FORTHCOMING Spring 2024

Works for Works, Book 2: “No Rights” privileges works-based agency (praxis) in literary-artistic scholarship. The principal focus of the Franciscan-inspired embrace of a “no rights” status for works of literary-artistic scholarship is toward freeing both author and works from forms of technocratic determinism and neo-utilitarianism associated with regimes of intellectual property rights law and platform[…]

Burning Diagrams in Anthropology: An Inverse Museum

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FORTHCOMING Spring 2024

Burning Diagrams in Anthropology examines the use of diagrams in anthropology to re-imagine how we think about, and challenge, intellectual histories. Highlighting the impossibility of escaping what different disciplines and institutions deem to be “past,” the author combines critical analysis of selected diagrams with an expansive, exploratory re-immersion in their aesthetic, ethical, and political potential.[…]

Speaking with the Dead: An Ethnography of Extrahuman Experience

FORTHCOMING Spring 2024

If you tried speaking with a dead person and they gave you a clear response, how would you react? In Speaking with the Dead, Matt Tomlinson describes his experiences training as a medium with a Spiritualist congregation in Australia. Mediums develop their minds and bodies to communicate messages from the deceased to their living loved[…]

Wilhelm Reich versus the Flying Saucers: An American Tragedy

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FORTHCOMING Spring 2024

Defining the presence of a cinematic self in the misunderstood psychologist and experimental scientist once considered heir to Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich versus the Flying Saucers rejects orthodox portrayals of Reich’s engagement with UFO phenomena in the 1950s as evidence of psychosis. Combining original analysis and evidence from the Wilhelm Reich Archive, James Reich uncovers[…]

Alone in the Dark: Cinephilia and the Heroic Imagination

FORTHCOMING Fall 2023

Alone in the Dark is an experimental memoir – or perhaps, more accurately, an anti-memoir or a memoir of the imagination, some unruly combination of essay, prose poem, and floating reverie that examines the relationship between one’s cultural heritage and one’s aesthetic devotions. It initially appears to be an account of the obsessive moviegoing of[…]

Nairobi Becoming: Security, Uncertainty, Contingency

FORTHCOMING Summer 2023

Echoing the edgy, disjunctive, ever-emergent city of Nairobi that it explores, this book strives to be several things-in-the-making. It is a historically and anthropologically minded examination of a shifting cityscape, an experimental, collaborative exercise in curated juxtaposition and assemblage, and an interdisciplinary, subjunctive urban ethnography. It brings together curated interventions by twenty-seven artists, scholars, and[…]

Lamma: A Journal of Libyan Studies 2

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Published: 06/20/2023

Lamma aims to provide a forum for critically understanding the complex ideas, values, social configurations, histories, and material realities in Libya. Recognizing, and insisting on, the urgent need for such a forum, we give attention to as wide a range of disciplines, sources, and approaches as possible, foregrounding especially those which have previously received less[…]